Spicy Black Bean Rice

⏱ 45 mins 🍽 6 serving(s) 🏷 One Dish Meal

This one dish meal brings together a wild rice blend with black beans, diced tomatoes and a robust mix of spices including chili powder and cayenne. Diced onions, peppers, jalapenos and garlic are sauteed separately before being combined with the rice mixture and whole chipotle peppers, creating a deeply flavourful and substantial dish.

Spicy Black Bean Rice

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon basil
  • 1/4 teaspoon chili pepper flakes
  • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 medium bay leaf
  • 4 garlic cloves, diced
  • 1/4 cup hot sauce
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 cups long grain and wild rice blend, cooked
  • 1 cup canned tomato, diced
  • 1 cup canned black beans, rinsed
  • 1 large cooking onion, diced
  • 1/2 medium green pepper, diced
  • 1/2 medium red pepper, diced
  • 3 medium jalapeno peppers, finely diced
  • 3 medium canned chipotle peppers, whole

Method

  1. In a large skillet or wok, heat 1 tbsp olive oil and add the cooked rice, diced tomatoes, rinsed black beans, hot sauce, chili powder, cumin, cayenne, bay leaf and chili pepper flakes. Let this simmer for 15 - 20 minutes.
  2. Take a separate skillet or wok and heat the remaining 1 tbsp olive oil. Cook the diced onion in it.
  3. Once the onion turns somewhat translucent, stir in the diced green and red peppers, jalapeno peppers and garlic.
  4. Introduce the whole chipotle peppers and the entire contents of the vegetable skillet to the rice mixture. Stir everything together until well combined.
  5. This dish tastes great the second day and is not for the faint of stomach.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium467800 mg

Recipe details

CategoryOne Dish Meal
AuthorDemirep