Best Cafeteria School Lunch Spanish Rice Local Style Recipes

Spanish Rice from Ohio school menu image

Provided by Bonnie Lockhart

Time 1h5m

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 lb good ground beef
2 medium yellow onions, chopped fine
1 c celery, chopped fine
1 c uncooked, long grain rice, rinsed
1 Tbsp salt
1/4 c sugar
6 c tomatoes, crushed (with hands is fine) and the juice

Steps:

1. Mix all together and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, making sure rice and celery is done. If you have a food processor, the chopping is quicker, but get crushed tomatoes, or just crush them with you hand.

Cafeteria School Lunch

Provided by carvalhohm

Number Of Ingredients 6

4 c. cooked rice
2 lb. ground beef
2 8-oz. cans tomato sauce
1 Tbsp. garlic powder
Salt & pepper to taste
1 8-oz. package sharp cheddar cheese

Steps:

Cook four cups of rice in rice cooker and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Brown ground beef and drain oil. Add tomato sauce and garlic powder and mix well. Add cooked rice a little at a time and fold into hamburger mixture until rice is completely coated in tomato sauce. Taste the rice mixture and add salt, pepper and garlic powder to your taste. Poke holes in rice mixture and pour cheddar cheese over rice ensuring that some of the cheese fills the holes. Cover for 10 minutes allowing cheese to completely melt.