This Spanish rice and beans brings big flavor to humble ingredients! It’s a tasty vegan and vegetarian main dish or easy side dish.Here’s a dish made with humble ingredients yet big flavor: Spanish rice and beans! Alex and I recently shared a Spanish rice recipe as part of our Ultimate Vegan Burrito, and it so tasty we wanted to find another way to serve it. Enter: rice and beans! It’s a pantry-staple sort of meal that works as a healthy vegan and vegetarian dinner or a hearty side. Flavored with salsa and adobo sauce, the rice is filled with tangy roasted red peppers, beans, and herby cilantro. Alex and I took one bite, and then couldn’t stop eating it. Here’s more about it, and how to make it!Looking for something more traditional? Try our Black Beans and Rice or Cuban Black Beans Recipe.Spanish rice and beans: more of a concept than a recipe!Spanish rice is actually Mexican dish, sometimes called Mexican rice or arroz rojo (“red rice” in Spanish). It gets its red color from cooking it with tomatoes. Here’s our take on this popular Mexican-style side dish, which pairs perfectly with tacos and enchiladas. It’s fantastic in this Vegan Burrito, or alongside these Zesty Red Enchiladas.Add beans, and you’ve got Spanish rice and beans! Interestingly, there’s not really a “recipe standard” for it, like there is for Spanish rice. So, you can use any sort of bean you’d like! Adding that plant-based protein turns this classic side dish into a healthy vegetarian and vegan dinner.Ingredients in Spanish rice and beansThere are lots of variations on how to make Spanish rice. Like coleslaw or potato salad, everyone has their own spin on this side dish. And as I mentioned above, there’s even more variation on the concept when you add beans to it. Here’s what is in this recipe:White onionMedium or long grain white riceSalsaAdo
Read More
