Rice with Mexican mixture: ideas of delicious dishes

Rice with a Mexican mixture is a bright, healthy and tasty dish that can become a real table decoration. Using ready-made frozen vegetables will significantly reduce the cooking time. And our selection of recipes will help you to fill up the home cookbook with several wonderful dishes.

Composition of the Mexican mixture

Today, you can easily find both packaged mixtures and frozen vegetables on the market. In the season, of course, you can assemble the mix yourself. The classic version of the mixture in Mexican includes the following ingredients, taken in equal parts:

• green peas;
• Corn grain;
• String beans, cut into pieces;
• Bulgarian pepper;
• carrot.

Some manufacturers add to the mix also red beans, so beloved by the people of Mexico. The presence of this component is indicated by a note on the package. There is another option - rice with a Mexican mixture. In such a set, in addition to raw vegetables, heat-treated rice is added, which is prepared much faster than usual. Mexican mixture, frozen with rice, can be used to make soup, garnish to meat and fish dishes.

How to cook on the stove?

This method is one of the simplest. It is great for those who have never cooked frozen vegetable mixes.

For this dish, you need "Rice with a Mexican mixture", a small amount of vegetable oil and water. Preheat the fat in a deep frying pan or wok, load vegetables with rice, fry, stirring, about 10 minutes. When the ingredients are browned, pour the mixture with water (or broth), so that the liquid completely covers the rump and vegetables. Cover and simmer over medium heat until cooked.

Before cooking, the frozen product should not be thawed.

Cooking in the multivariate

Modern technology can help quickly and deliciously prepare a product such as a Mexican mixture. Recipes for the multivark are quite numerous, and having learned to prepare this dish, you can conduct various experiments, adding components such as seafood, meat, bacon.

It is better to use a mixture of vegetables without rice. Preheat a small amount of any fat in the bowl. Load vegetables (400 g), set the mode "Roasting". Put the browned pieces into a bowl, load the rice (1 cup) into the remaining fat and pour in 2 cups of broth or water. Cook in the "Varka" mode as much as recommends the instruction of your multivark. Before serving, mix the rice with the vegetables.

If you use a mixture with rice, just pour it with boiling water and cook under the cover in the "Quenching" or "Baking" mode.

The recipe for the oven

Quickly and simply prepare a Mexican mixture with rice in the oven. You only need to oil the form, load a pack of frozen vegetables mixed with the same amount of pre-boiled rice. Additional liquid may not be needed, because there is enough moisture in the frozen product. The cooking time is about 20 minutes.

Meal with meat and rice

A very popular Mexican mixture, the recipes of which contain meat ingredients. You will not only get a delicious side dish, but a self-sufficient dish. Perfect for this recipe are products such as pork ribs, brisket, chicken fillet, beef goulash, heart, giblets.

Fry in a frying pan one finely chopped onion. Add 400 grams of raw meat, diced. Immediately put the boil pan with water (500 ml). When the meat is fried from all sides, transfer it into the water and leave to cook on a small fire. In the remaining fat, load the rice (1 glass), fry, stirring, and then send to the meat. At the very end, fry the vegetables in Mexican. It remains to connect all the ingredients, mix, try for salt and put out a little together. You can even serve such a treat to a festive table.

Mexican rice with seafood

Fragrant vegetables perfectly match with prawns, mussels, squid and sea cocktail. You can buy these ingredients in the same departments of supermarkets where frozen vegetable mixes are sold.

For this recipe you will need:

• Packing of the Mexican mixture (400 g);
• Long grain rice - 250 g;
• Shrimp or sea cocktail - 300-400 g.

You can prepare rice with a Mexican mixture in any convenient way: in a multi-store, in an oven or frying pan. And while the base is stewed, blanch in frozen water frozen seafood to melt the ice, and then fry them on high heat in hot oil for 2-3 minutes. To make the taste of seafood more vivid, at the end of frying, you can pour 50 ml of white wine into a frying pan and cover with a lid.

This delicious treat before serving can be decorated with fresh herbs and lightly sprinkled with lemon juice.