Mamacita's Mexican Rice

Ingredients

• long-grain white rice (1 cup)
• vegetable oil (1 tablespoon)
• onion (1 )
• garlic (1 clove)
• chicken broth (1.5 cups)
• tomato (1 )
• ground cumin (0.5 teaspoon)
• Spanish saffron (0.5 teaspoon)
• salt (0 )
• ground black pepper (0 )
• frozen peas and carrots (0.25 cup)
• fresh cilantro (1 sprig)

Instructions

1. Cook and stir rice and oil in a skillet over medium heat until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes. Add onion and cook for 2 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
2. Pour chicken broth into rice mixture and bring to a boil; stir tomato, cumin, saffron, salt, and black pepper into broth and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer until rice is cooked, about 20 minutes.
3. Stir peas and carrots into cooked rice; garnish with cilantro.

Nutrition

(*Nutrition data is approximate and may vary depending on the brand and type of ingredients used.)

• kcal: 156
• fat: 3 g
• sats: 0 g
• carbs: 30 g
• fibre: 1 g
• protein: 3 g
• salt: 0 g