EASY RICE COOKER SPANISH RICE

Easy Rice Cooker Spanish Rice image

A delicious side dish or main dish. Goes well with tacos. You can also add some Rotel®. It makes it a bit spicy, but still very good.

Provided by Cris

Categories Side Dish Rice Side Dish Recipes Spanish Rice Recipes

Time 50m

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef
4 cups water
3 ½ cups uncooked white rice
2 (14.5 ounce) cans diced tomatoes with juice
2 (1.25 ounce) packages taco seasoning, reduced sodium
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon chili powder
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper

Steps:

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes.
Combine water, rice, tomatoes, taco seasoning, salt, chili powder, and pepper in a rice cooker. Mix well. Seal rice cooker and select setting according to manufacturer's instructions. Cook until tender, about 30 minutes, stirring halfway through. Open the lid partway to release steam, and let rice sit, 5 to 10 minutes. Fluff rice with a fork.
Stir browned ground beef into the rice.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 308.8 calories, Carbohydrate 45.4 g, Cholesterol 23.2 mg, Fat 11 g, Fiber 1.3 g, Protein 10.7 g, SaturatedFat 2.4 g, Sodium 572.8 mg, Sugar 1.7 g