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Hot Mexican Rice Salad

A delicious hot Mexican rice salad that is a great side for fajitas, or as a vegetarian meal on its own.
Servings 8
Author Michelle Ordever

Ingredients

  • 3 packets of Uncle Ben's Express Long Grain Rice
  • 1 400 g can black beans drained and rinsed
  • 1 medium onion finely diced
  • 1 red bell pepper or 3 small bell peppers in your preferred colour finely diced
  • 1 red chilli finely sliced
  • 1- 2 garlic cloves minced
  • handful fresh coriander chopped
  • 2 tbsp tomato purée
  • 1 - 2 limes
  • 1 - 3 tbsps water
  • one-cal oil spray

Instructions

  • Heat a saucepan until hot, then spray with the oil spray.
  • Sauté the onion and pepper until softened, then add the chilli and garlic
  • Open the packets of rice and add to the pan, breaking it up
  • Add the water and tomato purée and mix together
  • Stir in the black beans and cover the pan to heat through
  • When the rice is hot, squeeze in the lemon juice and add the coriander
  • Serve immediately with wedges of lime
  • Ideal side dish for chicken fajitas.
  • Can also be eaten cold. Don't re-heat