Recipe: Perfect Spicy Mexican rice

Spicy Mexican rice.

You can have Spicy Mexican rice using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Spicy Mexican rice

1. You need 500 g of basmati rice.
2. You need of equal amounts of cold water (use same measuring jug/cup for both.
3. It's 1 tbsp of oil.
4. You need 4 of large chicken breast diced.
5. It's 300 g of spicy chorizo into thick slices.
6. It's 2 of garlic cloves crushed.
7. You need 1 of red pepper sliced.
8. It's 1 of large red onion thinly sliced.
9. It's 1 cup of frozen garden peas.
10. You need 3 of large scallions chopped for topping.
11. You need 1 of birdseye chilli finely chopped.
12. It's 3 tbsp of Chipotle sauce/salsa.
13. You need 2 tbsp of smoked paprika.
14. You need 1 tbsp of hot chilli powder.
15. Prepare 1 tbsp of cayenne pepper.
16. It's 1/2 of dried oregano.

Spicy Mexican rice instructions

1. Put equal amounts of rice and cold water. Bring to a boil. Reduce temperature to a low heat cover pot and leave to cook for 10 minutes after 10 minutes remove lid and fluff up rice put lid back on pot and allow to steam as u prep ingredients. (This is how I always cook rice).
2. In a large pan put oil chicken and chorizo and cook until chicken is totally cooked.
3. Add chopped veg (except scallions)for 5 minutes then add spices and mix well.
4. Now add cooked rice and coat it with the seasonings until no white remains on the rice.
5. Finally add Chipotle sauce and give a final mix and top with chopped scallions and serve immediately.