Scrumptious Cheesy Rice
From sweetwords 16 years ago
- 50 minutes to make
- Serves 6
This is a big modification of a recipe I found on cuisinartstandmixer.com. Even my two-year-old loves it!
Ingredients
- 1 cup uncooked rice shopping list
- 1-1/4 cups chicken broth shopping list
- 1-1/2 cups water shopping list
- 1 small white onion, chopped shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons butter shopping list
- 8oz colby Jack cheese, shredded shopping list
- 1/8 tsp white pepper shopping list
- 1/4 tsp dried basil leaves shopping list
- 1/4 - 1/2 tsp cajun seasoning, such as Tony Chachere's shopping list
- 1 small tomato, chopped shopping list
- 2-3 strips bacon shopping list
- 1 chopped green onion top shopping list
How to make it
- Bring 1-1/4 cups broth and 1-1/2 cups water to a boil; add rice, cover and simmer for 10 minutes then let sit. Do not drain.
- Meanwhile, saute onion in butter until soft, adding garlic after 5 minutes.
- Heat oven to 350.
- Add seasonings to rice and stir.
- Add onion and cheese to rice, and then stir until cheese is melted, turning heat back on very low if needed.
- Add tomato and stir gently, so as not to mash the tomato.
- Spray 2qt. casserole with butter Pam; pour rice mixture into dish.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or if rice is too wet, turn oven down to about 300 or lower and bake 10 minutes longer.
- Meanwhile, fry and crumble bacon.
- When rice mixture is done, take out of oven and garnish with bacon and green onion.
- Excellent side dish! Looks nice, too.
- Recipe may not double exactly, by the way, depending on which type or brand of rice you use.
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