Mexican Rice

Mexican food.. An all time favourite cusine, apart from chinese... Mexican cuisine resembles Indian cuisine in a lot of ways.. the cooking tools, the ingredients used as well as the method of preperations.. most of it is similar in both the worlds...

The mexican rice dishes resembles our Indian pulao..  The people in Mexico eat corn tortillas with almost every meal which is very similar to our Indian chapatis.. The salsa that they make which can be found chunky, semi - chunky or with a smooth texture with varied levels of spicyness is very similar to our Indian chutneys..

 Whenever i have any left over rice, try to incorporate all the mexican flavours into the rice.. Kidney bean,, my other favourite bean,, is one of the main ingredients in most of the mexican dishes.. So this is a perfect recipe to suit my tastebuds and curb my hunger anytime..

Mexican Rice

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked small grain rice

1/2 cup boiled red kidney beans ie rajma

1/2 cup boiled sweet corn

1/4 cup onion chopped

1/4 cup colored bellpeppers chopped

2tbsp tomato sauce

6-8 flakes garlic

6-8 dry red chilli

1tsp vinegar

Salt

3-4tbsp Oil

Method: Grind dry red chilli and garlic using a mortar and pestle. Heat oil in a deep pan. Saute onions till pink. Add chilli garlic paste and saute for another 2mins. Add bellpeppers and saute again till cooked. Next add sweet corn, kidney beans, tomato sauce, vinegar and salt. Mix well and keep covered for 5mins till all the flavours blend well. Finally add rice and mix well. Serve hot.