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Chipotle-Style Cilantro-Lime Rice

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  • Active Time

    10 minutes

  • Total Time

    35 minutes

This homemade version of a popular Chipotle restaurant menu item livens up plain white rice with lime juice and tons of cilantro. Serve it as a side dish or top with cooked vegetables and salsa to make a quick burrito bowl.

Ingredients

4–6 servings

1 cup white jasmine rice
1 teaspoon kosher salt
3 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Rinse rice several times with cold water until water runs clear. Drain well in a fine-mesh sieve. Transfer rice to a medium pot. Add salt and 1 1/4 cups water, cover, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and cook, covered, until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed, 18–21 minutes.

    Step 2

    Remove from heat. Let stand, covered and undisturbed, 10 minutes. Use a fork to fluff, then gently fold in cilantro, butter, and lime juice.

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  • This is a great recipe Chipotle Bowl , had fun making it over the weekend. Recreated the meal that I get from <a href="https://www.flexpromeals.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc">https://www.flexpromeals.com/</a> delivered. Good quality and fresh.

    • Vadim

    • 9/29/2023

  • You MUST rinse jasmine rice until the water runs clear or your rice will turn out like wallpaper paste. And watch it - jasmine rice is not Uncle Bens - 2 to 1 water to rice is probably too much - but I say add water as needed. Also, I was worried it would be too limey and opted not to double the lime juice when I went to 2 cups of uncooked rice. It needed more lime --- I used lime zest plus juice of one lime for 2 cups rice and it was not enough. Some suggest adding a jasmine tea bag to the cooking water - I may try that next time for more flavor.

    • lorig13

    • NJ

    • 7/19/2021

  • I, too, was concerned that 1 1/4 cups water would not be anywhere close to enough. I did use jasmine rice but used 2 cups water. My rice was cooked--but on the gummy side. Maybe the ideal amount is 1 3/4 cups. I like cilantro, so I was disappointed that I could not really taste the cilantro in this when I was done. Would definitely increase it.

    • blondoverblue

    • Sacramento

    • 3/12/2019

  • Loved this! Reminds me also of the rice at Wahoo's Fish Taco restaurants. Based on the previous reviews about the water ratio in the recipe; I just made the rice in my Instant Pot how I normally would, then added the rest. It turned out great, and everyone loved it. Served with salmon tacos and black beans.

    • Anonymous

    • Laguna Beach, Ca.

    • 2/18/2019

  • It should be 1 cup rice 2cups water. Some salt 1/4 cup chopped cilantro 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 tablespoons lime juce/ put lime peels in with rice at end with lid.

    • Esahcwal1

    • Texas

    • 3/3/2018

  • There's a problem with the amount of water for this recipe. Thankfully I checked the rice after about 9 - 10 minutes to find that the water was all absorbed and it had started to stick to the bottom of the saucepan. Had I left it untended per the recipe it would have burnt completely. Should be at least 2 or 2 1/2 cups of water for 1 cup of rice - IMHO. Otherwise, the flavour was great and was a perfect accompaniment to the "Our favorite Meatloaf" recipe.

    • imhyyz

    • Toronto, Canada

    • 12/18/2017

  • Excellent. I found that I needed 1 and 3 /4-2 cups of water otherwise the rice would stick. Added more cilantro but we like it and the lime juice is great as well.

    • phmokda

    • St. Petersburg

    • 12/1/2017

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