Spanish Rice With Beef

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 1 medium onion, chopped fine
• 1 medium green bell pepper, chopped (or red bell pepper, whichever you like better)
• 2 (16 ounce) cans stewed tomatoes, undrained
• 1 cup uncooked long grain rice (minute rice is fine that's what i usually use)
• 1 cup water
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce (optional)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
• 3/4 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed cayenne pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder (i usually use more)

Recipe

• 1 cook ground beef, onion and bell pepper until meat is cooked through.
• 2 drain in a colander.
• 3 pat meat mixture dry with a paper towel to remove excess grease.
• 4 wipe grease drippings from the pan with another clean paper towel.
• 5 return meat mixture to pan and stir in the remaining ingredients.
• 6 bring to a boil; cover.
• 7 reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes or until rice is tender, stirring occasionally.
• 8 if you are using regular rice this will take a bit longer for the rice to cook through and you may need more liquid - so keep an eye on it. use your own judgement as to the consistency you want. it shouldn't be too runny though.