Easy Spanish Rice Soup Recipes

ZIPPY SPANISH RICE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain., Transfer to a 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker. Add the water, salsa, tomatoes, red peppers, chilies, taco seasoning and cilantro. Stir in rice. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until rice is tender.

EASY SPANISH RICE SOUP RECIPE

Steps:

• In a vegetable cutting board chop the onion, red bell pepper and fresh parsley.
• Grab a large saucepan or pot and mix the crushed tomatoes, vegetable broth, bay leaf, salt, pepper and the chopped vegetables.
• Place the saucepan on the stove and bring to a boil at medium to high heat. Then simmer for 15 minutes at low heat. If you want a smoother soup now is the time to process it on a blender or mixer.
• Then add cooked rice and cook everything together in a medium to low heat.
• After that cook for 5 minutes and remove the bay leaf. Serve warm.

TACO SOUP WITH SPANISH RICE

Steps:

• 1. In a large skillet, brown ground meat and drain.
• 2. In a large stockpot or dutch oven, saute green pepper and onion in olive oil until soft. Add ground meat and stir.
• 3. Add canned beans, canned tomatoes, and canned corn. (The only thing I drain is the corn. Stir in ranch dressing mix, taco seasoning, and other spice until mixed well. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer for 1 hour. Meanwhile, prepare Spanish rice according to package directions.
• 4. To serve, spoon a small amount of rice into the bottom of bowl, top with taco soup. I like to add another small spoonful of rice on top. Garnish with shredded cheddar, chopped avocado, and cilantro. This is a great, filling, easy, and comforting meal!

SPANISH CHICKEN AND RICE SOUP

Steps:

• Place the butter in a small pot over medium heat. Melt the butter and toast the pasta 2 to 3 minutes or until golden in color, add the rice and stir to coat. Add 1 cup stock to the pot and bring the mixture to a bubble, reduce the heat to low, cover the pot and cook 15 minutes. Stir in parsley; turn off the heat and cover. Let stand to cool. Fluff the rice with a fork then place in container and store in the refrigerator.
• Meanwhile, place the rinsed trimmed chicken pieces in a shallow pan with the onion and bay leaves and cover with just enough water to come up to the top of the chicken, bring the mixture to a boil and reduce the heat to a simmer and gently poach to cook through, about 12 to 15 minutes. Place the chicken in a bowl and shred the meat with 2 forks. Reserve the stock.
• While the chicken poaches start the soup by heating a Dutch oven over medium-high heat with a turn of the pan extra-virgin olive oil, add the chorizo and brown a couple of minutes. Add the onions, carrot, celery, chile, garlic, and piquillos to the pot and season with a little salt and some black pepper. Cook for 7 to 8 minutes to soften, then stir in the saffron threads and paprika to combine. Strain the chicken cooking liquids, about 2 cups, into the pot then add 3 cups stock-in-a-box, chicken, chorizo, and tomatoes. Bring the soup to a bubble, simmer a few minutes to combine flavors then cool completely, cover and place in the refrigerator for make-ahead meal.
• To reheat and serve, place the soup over medium to medium-high heat covered, stirring occasionally until heated through. Add the rice to the soup and return the soup to a bubble. Serve in shallow bowls.

TRADITIONAL SPANISH RICE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a stock pot with a medium heat and add in 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• After 2 minutes, add in 1 small onion finely diced, 1 carrot (peeled) finely chopped and 4 cloves garlic roughly chopped, mix with the olive oil, once the onion is translucent, about 3 minutes, add in 1 cup uncooked round rice, mix together and cook the rice for about 2 minutes while mixing continuously, then add in 1 1/4 cups canned chickpeas (drained & rinsed) and season with sea salt & black pepper, gently mix together, then add in 6 1/2 cups vegetable broth, 1/4 tsp saffron threads and 1 sprig fresh rosemary, raise the heat to a high heat, mix together and bring to a boil, then place a lid on the stock pot and lower the heat to a low-medium
• While the soup is cooking, make the hardboiled eggs, add in 2 eggs into a sauce pan, fill with cold water, about 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) above the eggs and heat with a high heat, once it comes to a boil, place a lid on the sauce pan and turn off the heat, let the eggs sit there between 11 to 12 minutes to get perfectly hardboiled eggs
• After simmering the soup for 18 minutes with the lid on, the rice should be perfectly cooked, remove the stock pot from the heat
• Transfer the soup into shallow bowls, top off each one with the hardboiled eggs (roughly chopped) and a generous portion of finely chopped parsley, serve at once, enjoy!

SPANISH RICE SOUP

Steps:

• In large saucepan or Dutch oven, cook ground beef until browned.
• Drain off fat.
• Stir in water, UNDRAINED tomatoes, celery, UNCOOKED rice, green pepper, soup mix, bouillon cube, salt, basil and hot pepper sauce.
• Bring to boil.
• Reduce heat to low.
• Cover and simmer about 20 minutes or until rice is tender, stirring occasionally.