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Arroz con Verduras (Everyday Vegetable Rice)

Arroz con Verduras (Everyday Vegetable Rice) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium Heart healthy High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

  • 2 cups short grain rice
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 2 ripe tomato
  • 1 green bell pepper
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 1 cup green beans
  • 4 artichoke hearts
  • 1 tsp sweet paprika
  • 1 pinch saffron threads
  • 5 cups vegetable broth
  • 1 tsp salt

How to cook it

  1. Heat the olive oil in a wide, shallow pan or large skillet and cook the chopped onion, garlic, and both peppers over medium heat until soft, about 8 minutes.
  2. Stir in the grated tomato and the paprika and cook for 3 minutes until the sofrito deepens in color.
  3. Add the green beans and artichoke hearts and cook for 5 minutes, then stir in the rice so every grain gets coated in the sofrito.
  4. Pour in the broth, crumble in the saffron, and season with the salt, then bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer uncovered for 18 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally so the rice stays loose and soupy the way an everyday home meloso rice should be, rather than cooking it down dry.
  5. Let the pot rest, covered, for 5 minutes off the heat before serving so the last of the broth is absorbed into the rice.

Serve it with

A Spanish lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Arroz con Verduras (Everyday Vegetable Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Arroz con Verduras (Everyday Vegetable Rice) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Arroz con Verduras (Everyday Vegetable Rice)
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.

Calorie band
Moderate
Protein
Low
Food groups it covers
Grains and Vegetables
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Arroz con Verduras (Everyday Vegetable Rice) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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Cooked from the same things

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