welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen today i'm making this
sausage and pepper fry and i thought i'd
make some red rice to go along with it
so last winter julie and i were in
mexico a couple of times
learning from a few chefs how to make
tacos out pastor and you can check out
that recipe video elsewhere on the
channel while we were there we spent
some time with some chefs and ate with
them
in their own homes ate their home
cooking
and so one family this is how they made
their red rice to go with the rest of
their meal
so in this blender i put a can of rotel
and i'm going to put in some cumin and
we are going to blend this until it's
smooth
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doesn't take much now i'm not going to
argue about authenticity
because who cares what is actually
authentic what i know is that
this chef made it this way with his
family
and chefs are notorious
for taking shortcuts when they cook at
home
after you've cooked all week you're
going to take some shortcuts when you're
cooking for yourself
so in this rice cooker and this is a
really cheap 25 year old rice cooker
that julie and i
have had forever uh i think we paid ten
dollars for it and it's probably still
only ten dollars
into there i'm going to put some oil a
tablespoon in half two tablespoons
and to that i'm going to add some long
grain rice
and we're going to stir that together
now i've already turned the rice cooker
on it's heating up and we want to kind
of toast that rice a little bit before
we add the rest of the ingredients
stir it keep an eye on it you're looking
for it to get just a little bit
toasty and you'll start to smell it to
be like a nutty smell
once you've reached that point you can
throw in the rest of the ingredients
that is some mexican oregano
all of that can of rotel
some chicken stock or just plain water
if that's what you have
and then one or two sort of mild to
medium hot peppers so this is a jalapeno
i only have one today and they didn't
chop it up they didn't cut it they just
crushed it with their hand on the
countertop
just to break some of the membrane and
pop it in
we're going to give this a stir just to
make sure everything is combined
and the rice cooker is already on so
make sure that it still is on
and put the lid on and let it go once
the rice cooker comes up to a boil
take off the lid and give it a stir and
just make sure
really make sure that everything is
mixed together that's all it takes
put the lid back on and let it finish
cooking
there we are hey all good hey jules hey
friends so oh there's a hot pepper right
on top there is
there is a jalapeno right on top so here
is the rice this is uh
tomato rice some people call it mexican
rice some people call it spanish rice
flavored rice flavored rice with lemon
rice it's rotel
it's rotel rice man
i know rotel it's like this an
introduction from your family that has
learned to use a lot of different ways
and luckily it started showing up here
in canada
like a year and a half ago maybe and i
use it all the time now
that's really good because that's not
that's not um
all sticky it's very the pieces of rice
or the grains are yeah
it could use a little bit more flavor i
know that
instead of uh the chicken stock they
would use a stock cube and the stock
cube has a lot of msg in it
and i i was going to grab up here
and you're a large container of msg and
get the jug of msg the msg would
certainly um
bring a lot of those other flavors out
it's still good though it is really good
bite to it
and it's meant to be a foil to the rest
of the meal which is
peppers and sausage so when do we get
that
come on back for the next video thanks
for stopping by see you again soon
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