This High-protein Mexican spicy rice is just one of many delicious and high-protein recipes you can make by adding some pea protein to your recipes!
You can have it either for dinner or lunch!
If you are looking for more recipes high in protein, try this delicious Mexican vegan steak recipe. Interested in other rice recipes? give this quick vegetable fried rice a go!
Rice can be tricky to cook! I suggest that if you are planning to use another type of rice, first you have a look at this guide.
We hope you love this recipe as much as we do ❤️, it’s:
High in protein
Spicy, very Mexican!
Easy to make and very healthy!
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High-protein Mexican spicy rice
Ingredients
- 1/2 Medium sized onion (We love purple onions!)
- 1 cup Uncooked brown rice
- 4 tbsp Apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp Pea protein (I like the brand Pulsin)
- 20 g Coriander (the pic has much less than that!)
- 2 clove Garlic
- 1 teaspoon Matcha powder Optional
- 1 tbsp Vegan stock
- 5 Chilies (I use Bird's eye green)
- 1 Pepper Optional
- 3 cups Water
Instructions
- Make sure you have all the ingredients
- Boil the 2.5 cups of water in a decently sized pot. Put a wooden spoon on top of it to avoid leaks
- Add the rice and let it cook for about 25 minutes to where it is almost done (you need to check it periodically!)
- While the rice is being cooked. Chop the chilies, onion, and pepper. No need to chop them in very small pieces unless you don't have a very powerful blender
- Put everything in the blender and blend for about 1 minute (including the 1/2 cup of water you have left!)
- When the rice is almost done (around 25 minutes from when it started boiling) add the green mix to the pot
- Wait for another 5 minutes approximately
- Enjoy!
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Notes
- More pea protein will make it taste weird! if you need more protein, you should probably just have it normally with your water or milk
- Spyciness is tricky… I actually use 9 chilies! but I am Mexican!
- Matcha is optional, it just gives it a green-ish colour that I really like, plus all the benefits that matcha has
- You can substitute rice with culiflower rice to make it very low carb!