Lisas Favorite Mexican Rice

This is a welcome change from tacos! Serve with a salad, more salsa, and sour cream.

Step: 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Prepare a casserole dish with cooking spray.

Step: 2

Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute onion and garlic in hot oil until the onion is tender, about 5 minutes; add ground beef and continue to cook while breaking beef into small pieces with a wooden spoon until the beef is completely browned, 5 to 7 minutes. Season beef mixture with the

Step: 3

mix.

Step: 4

Stir beef mixture, rice, vegetables, kidney beans, 1 cup Cheddar cheese, salsa, and olives together in the prepared casserole dish. Sprinkle remaining cheese over the mixture.

Step: 5

Bake in preheated oven until the cheese is melted and the dish is hot in the center, about 30 minutes.

Per Serving: 567 calories; protein 33.6g; carbohydrates 48g; fat 26.1g; cholesterol 100.6mg; sodium 805.4mg.

The most obvious way to pick a side dish is to look at your main dish (pasta, chicken, seared tofu) and pick more different. When you’re cooking pasta, go for a simple vegetable . Making steak? Go for more light. If you’re making stir-fry with rice, it must not a good idea to also make a rice salad.

One make sure is also can apply to cooking process . You don’t want to push more often your oven by making to do list three dishes at once in there, or be juggling four pans on the cooking items . But sometimes you can make a dish do double-duty .