Easy Salsa Rice

This Easy Salsa Rice is a simple, flavorful dish that’s perfect as a weekday side dish, in a burrito bowl or as a tasty addition to your taco night!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American, Mexican

Keyword Easy Side Dish, Mexican Rice, Weight Watchers, WW Recipes

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 30

Total Time 35

Servings (1 scant cup) servings

Calories 211

Author Emily Bites

1 tablespoon olive oil
¼ cup chopped onion
1 ½ cups long grain white rice
2 cups reduced sodium chicken or vegetable broth
1 cup salsa My favorite is roasted tomato salsa – Frontera, Wegmans and Trader Joe’s all have a version
½ teaspoon ground cumin
A sprinkle of garlic powder

Bring the oil over medium heat in a large saute pan or walled skillet. Add the chopped onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for 3-5 minutes until the onions are softened.
Add the rice to the skillet and stir together with the oil and onions. Cook the dry rice, stirring occasionally, until some of the rice starts to turn golden (about 4-5 minutes). Add the broth, salsa, cumin and garlic powder and stir together. Cover the pan and reduce the heat to simmer for 20 minutes until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is cooked through.

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WW Points per (1 scant cup) serving: 7 (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)

Nutrition Information per (1 scant cup) serving:

211 calories, 41 g carbs, 3 g sugars, 3 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 4 g protein, 1 g fiber (from myfitnesspal.com)

MyWW SmartPoints per (1 scant cup) serving:(SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)

Green: 6 SmartPoints/ Blue: 6 SmartPoints/ Purple: 1 SmartPoints (if using brown rice, if not then use Blue points)

Weight Watchers Points Plus:

6 per (1 scant cup) serving (PP calculated using a WW PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition info below)

Lightly adapted from allrecipes

Calories: 211kcal