Navajo Avocado Rice

Submitted by lisar

"This is a different rice dish. It has a great combination of spices along with small chunks of avocado. It is pretty tasty."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 cup regular uncooked rice
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon dried oregano, ground
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cumin
• 1⁄4 teaspoon turmeric
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can chicken broth
• 1 avocado

directions

1. Place butter and oil in 2-quart pan over medium heat.
2. When butter is melted, add onion and garlic; cook until onion is tender.
3. Add rice; cook, stirring constantly, 3 minutes or until rice looks milky and opaque.
4. Add salt, oregano, cumin, turmeric and broth.
5. Bring to a boil.
6. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 20 to 25 minutes or until rice is tender and all liquid is absorbed.
7. Peel and pit avocado; dice.
8. Fluff up rice with fork; add avocado and toss gently.
9. Turn off heat; let stand 5 minutes before serving.

Reviews

[Lucky in Bayview]

Delicious flavorful rice recipe. It's funny though I realized as I was eating it that I don't care for warm avocado, the flavor of the avocado changes. There is nothing wrong with the recipe, just something I will know when choosing recipes in the future. I would make this again, and just leave it out. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

 

[Katie F]

Super tasty! I liked it a lot with just a bit of cayenne powder, but I like most things with some cayenne:)

 

[Charlies_Angel]

I have FINALLY found my favourite rice recipe! I love it with the avocado, but if you leave that out and put in half a tin of tomatoes while cooking, and then bake the rice for 1/2 hour, it tastes EXACTLY like the Spanish rice from any good Mexican restaurant in the states. I so miss Mexican food - I'm an American who's lived in England for 7 years - and this recipe helped me recapture some of those tastes I really miss. Thanks a lot for this fantastic recipe!!

 

[Freya]

WOW! This is really yummy. I am a total dunce at cooking rice on top of the stove so I followed step 1 - 3 (sauteed everything) and then put that & the spices in my "fuzzy" rice cooker. It turned out great!! Thor wants me to make it again - Pronto :)