Recipe: Perfect Authentic Mexican rice

Authentic Mexican rice.

You can have Authentic Mexican rice using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Authentic Mexican rice

1. You need 4 tbsp of olive oil.
2. You need 1 cup of long grain rice.
3. You need 1/4 of of a whole onion, diced.
4. You need 1 tbsp of Minced Garlic.
5. It’s 1/2 of of a whole tomato, diced.
6. Prepare 2 cup of chicken broth, if available..
7. You need 1 cup of water.
8. You need 1/2 can of tomato sauce.
9. You need 2 tbsp of knor, tomato flavored.
10. Prepare 3 cup of of water if no broth is used.

Authentic Mexican rice step by step

1. heat pot with olive oil or any kind of oil..
2. add cup of rice once oil is hot.
3. cook rice till you see a slight browning..
4. add onion to rice and cook for about 2 minutes..
5. add minced garlic and stir frequently for about a minute since it will burn easily..
6. add diced tomato and cook for about another 2 minutes. By this time rice should have a good browning to it.
7. add chicken broth and water, or just water. chicken broth gives it a wonderful flavor though..
8. add 1/2 a small can of tomato sauce..
9. add your 2 tablespoons of knor and stir.
10. leave cooking, covered for about 10-15 minutes or until you can see rice is fully cooked. add water if needed or knor if missing flavor..
11. This is absolutely not a dry dish. should be only slightly soupy and should have a light red color to it..
12. if available you can add cooked chicken to rice as it cooks..
13. I come from Mexican and Spanish heritage and living in South TX we can easily aquire knor, but not sure if others can. should be found in the ethnic section..