Cheat's red pepper rice recipe

Cheat's red pepper rice

Make use of a few supermarket shortcuts to make this cheat's red pepper rice, ready in under 30 minutes. Spicy Mexican-inspired rice is filled with flavour, then add sweet ready-roasted peppers, sweetcorn and butter beans to a quick veggie dinner.

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  • Serves 4
  • 386 calories / serving

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 red onion, finely sliced
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • 480g jar roasted red peppers, drained and sliced
  • 325g tin sweetcorn, drained
  • 210g tin butter beans, drained
  • 2 x 250g pouches Mexican inspired rice
  • 1 tbsp tomato purée
  • 1 lemon, cut into wedges
  • 50g spring onions, sliced

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Each serving contains

Energy
1625kJ 386.0kcal
19%
Fat
11g
low15%
Saturates
2g
low11%
Salt
1.2g
medium20%
Sugars
8g
low8%

of the Reference intake

Carbohydrate 60.5gProtein 8.6gFibre 8.4g

Method

  1. Heat the oil over a medium heat in a large shallow casserole dish. Fry the onion for 10 mins until softened, then stir in the garlic and fry for 1 min.
  2. Stir the red peppers, sweetcorn and butterbeans into the pan and fry for 2 mins. Tip the rice into the pan, stir well and cook for 2 mins until the rice is hot.
  3. Mix the tomato purée with 200ml boiling water in a jug. Pour over the rice and stir to combine. Cover with a lid, turn the heat to low and cook for 5 mins. Remove the lid, scatter over the spring onions and serve with lemon wedges for squeezing over.

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