10-Minute Cilantro Lime Brown Rice Recipe - The Kitchen Girl (2024)

FAQs

Does Chipotle use butter in their rice? ›

Chipotle's rice contains long-grain rice, bay leaves, and cilantro. The beans are made from pinto beans, water, onion, canola oil, salt, and spices, including cumin and garlic. The rice and beans do not contain dairy ingredients, so they are considered to be dairy-free.

While plain rice is fine, it's better to build some flavors early on. We love sauteeing some onions or leeks in butter with some thyme before adding rice to the pot, but you should use what you have around! Ginger and garlic both make for exceptional brown rice.

Most packs of brown rice will say to boil for longer than white rice, so for around 30-35 mins. The trick is to simmer it for most of that, then for the last 5-10 mins leave it, well covered, to absorb the water off the heat – resulting in light perfectly tender grains every time.

Use equal amounts of rice and water. ADD water and rice. Add oil if desired. BOIL water, reduce heat to medium, cover and simmer 10 minutes or until water is absorbed, then fluff.

Convenience foods typically save time, but those extra minutes often come at a nutritional price. That's not the case here. The nutritional differences between a serving of long grain brown rice, which requires about 35 to 45 minutes to cook—and instant brown rice—which cooks in about 5 minutes—are insignificant.

In short the answer is no. Unlike salt, we don't have a dedicated sugar supply that we use to add to our foods. In fact, none of the food on our menu has added sugar. The only thing we have that has any amount of sugar is the vinaigrette which has honey.

This is likely because seed oil is used to cook and prepare most of Chipotle's food. For example, the rice that is served with Chipotle's burritos and bowls is cooked in rice bran and sunflower oil. The chicken, steak, and barbacoa that are used in these dishes are also cooked in seed oils.

We do not put milk in our rices. White rice is cooked with bay leaves on/in it, then after cooking we add cilantro, lime juice, and salt. Brown rice is very similar, it also is cooked with bay leaves on/in it, then receives cilantro, lime juice, and salt as well.

Add extra seasoning: cooking brown rice with salt is essential for flavorful grains, but you can also infuse more flavor by adding olive oil and butter, swapping in garlic salt, or adding spices such as cayenne, ground ginger or cumin.

First, rinse the rice.

If they're not washed away, they will cause the rice to clump and become gummy as it cooks. Our goal is to make perfectly fluffy brown rice, so don't skip this step! I like to rinse mine in a fine mesh strainer over a large bowl until the water in the bowl runs clear.

Should you always rinse brown rice? ›

And before you ask: Whether you choose to rinse your rice is a personal choice—some sources say you don't need to rinse brown rice at all. Our opinion: For the fluffiest brown rice possible, rinsing is the way to go.

A great rule of thumb when cooking brown (and white) rice is a 2:1 ratio of water to rice. 2 cups of water for every 1 cup of rice.

Maybe you took the lid off of the pot too early, letting the steam escape. Maybe you didn't add enough liquid to begin with. Whatever the case, if your rice is looking dried out, or the texture is still hard or crunchy when all the liquid has been absorbed, add up to ½ cup water and return to a simmer with the lid on.

Twice as much water as rice. 2 cups water, 1 cup rice. Let the water boil, add rice, stir once or twice, cover tightly, lower heat as low as it can go, and then simmer for 30 minutes. Never remove the cover until it's done.

To cook brown rice on the stovetop, a good rule of thumb is to follow a 2 to 1 ratio of water to rice; so, for 1 cup of rice, you would use 2 cups of liquid. When in doubt, check the package directions for the optimal ratio for short-, medium-, and long-grain.

Stove: Add water and rice, stir. Add oil if desired. Boil water, reduce heat to medium, cover and simmer 10 minutes or until water is absorbed. Remove from heat.