Avocado Rice with Lime

With a simple shortcut, you can have this avocado rice ready for the dinner table in about five minutes!

It took me a while to get used to the switch, but I am finally used to eating brown rice instead of white. Not only am I used to it, I would even say I prefer the chewy texture and nutty flavor of brown rice in most cases. The only thing I don’t like about it is the fact that it takes 40+ minutes to cook. I did finally get a rice cooker a few months ago, which makes perfect rice easily, but it takes more like an hour to cook brown rice! Sometimes I don’t have an hour to wait for dinner to be ready, and in those cases I am in total love with frozen brown rice! Have you seen this stuff? It’s pre-cooked brown rice in steamable bags that you pop in your microwave for a few minutes. Voila! Perfect brown rice in practically no time!

I like to use frozen rice in this avocado rice recipe because it means a 5-minute side dish. You can’t beat that! This tangy rice is great on its own or added to tacos or burritos. I hope this will become one of your go-to recipes for nights when you need a super quick meal!

Avocado Lime Rice

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A few simple ingredients come together to make a tasty, healthy side dish.

• Total Time: 10 minutes
• Yield: 4 1x

Ingredients

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• 4 cups hot cooked brown rice (20 oz. of heated frozen brown rice)
• 1 ripe avocado
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt or more to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves

 

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Instructions

1. In a medium bowl, scoop out flesh of avocado and mash with lime juice, salt, and cumin.
2. Stir in rice and cilantro until well mixed. Adjust salt and lime to taste. Done!

 

Notes

• Be conservative with the lime and salt, and add more to taste. It’s easy to add more, but you can’t take it out if you add too much! (Ask me how I know…)
• Adapted from Bran Appetit!

 

• Author: Andi
• Prep Time: 5
• Cook Time: 5
• Category: Side Dish

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