Arroz Verde, Mexican Green Rice
Dec 01, 2025 07:44 AM
Mexican green rice, arroz verde, is an easy and delicious way to add lots of fantastic flavor so that your side truly shines. This tasty, colorful rice is perfect in burritos, with enchiladas and more.
While plain rice can be great to soak up the flavors of whatever you serve it with, it's also worth making it that bit more interesting sometimes, too. Just a few additions can add delicious flavor and color, from a simple South African yellow rice and veggie-loaded spanakorizo, Greek spinach rice, to the slightly more involved Persian sweet rice, shirin polow.
This Mexican green rice gets it's color from a puree that you add in during cooking that infuses the rice with lots of flavor as well. The end result is fluffy, flavorful grains that I could honestly eat just as they are, but that are also great with lots of dishes, too.
Ingredients:
- 1 poblano pepper medium
- ¼ onion small
- 1 clove garlic small
- ¼ cup cilantro coriander leaves, ¼ cup is around 5 stems
- 1 handful spinach
- ½ cup Jasmine rice or other long grain rice
- ¾ cup chicken stock or can use vegetable, to keep vegetarian
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 pinch salt or more to taste
- 1 pinch black pepper or more to taste
- cotija cheese/queso fresco to serve optional but recommended unless using as a burrito filling
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Cook Time:
30 minutes
Total Time:
40 minutes
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