Mexican Baked Rice and Beans
Sure rice is nice, but baked rice packed with hearty black beans, smoky Mexican spices and crunchy red peppers, all chucked into a simple one-pot dish you can have on the table in 30 minutes? Now that's what we call a midweek dinner HERO.
Serves
Ingredients
For the baked rice
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For the guacamole
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Before you start
Preheat oven to 180˚C, fan setting | 1 large baking tray
Prepare the ingredients
- Deseed and dice the red peppers
Mix together the ingredients
- In a large baking tray, mix together the rice, diced peppers, cumin, paprika, plant-based butter, drained black beans, a pinch of chilli flakes, the chipotle paste and a pinch of salt
- Mix well until everything is well combined before pouring in the boiling stock water and mixing again
Bake the rice
- Cook for 20-30 minutes, until all of the water has been absorbed and the rice is soft and fluffy
To make the guacamole
- Cut the avocados in half and spoon out the flesh into a bowl
- Add the juice of lime and a drizzle of olive oil, and using the back of a fork squash the avocados until soft
- Add a sprinkle of chilli flakes, salt and pepper and mix
- Cover and leave in the fridge until the rice is ready
Time to serve
- Once cooked, fluff the rice with a fork and mix through a good squeeze of lime juice
- Then add a dollop of guacamole and a pinch of chilli flakes