One pot Mexican Rice and Beans

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This one pot Mexican rice and beans are ultimate comfort food you can ever imagine when you are busy with two active kids in household. I was born and raised in a part of India where rice is main dish for any time meal. Mixed veggie rice is common during the meal time or during festive menu. As a mom now I love to cook healthy wholesome meals for my kids. I like soups and some time they are my go-to meal, some time I love to add the soup into the dish and transform into another delicious dish. And my go to soup is Progresso® Light Soup, which makes cooking so much simpler,  just open it and eat it or convert it into another one pot meal like rice and beans.

Progresso® Light Soup has many different varieties which is perfect for the times you are craving various different kinds of soup.  Progresso® Light Soup  Zesty Southwestern-Style Vegetable, Progresso® Light Soup  New England Clam Chowder, Progresso® Light Soup homestyle vegetable and rice are among my favorite soups. Today I am sharing a recipe made with my favorite variety of Progresso® Light Soup  Zesty Southwestern-Style Vegetable (you can find at your local Wal-Mart store).

This one pot Mexican rice and beans is loaded with lot of veggies, rice, extra beans and Progresso®  Light soup Zesty Southwestern-Style Vegetable as it has some beans in the soup itself. In this recipe I use onion, garlic, ginger, tomato, red and green bell pepper and zucchini. First you half cook the rice, I used long grain white rice, and if you want you can change it into brown rice. Then cook the veggies with Progresso® Light Soup  Zesty Southwestern-Style Vegetable. You need to spice it up a little with green chili, Spanish paparika, cumin powder, dried oregano, once the soup reduce little add half cook rice and some extra cooked black beans continue to cook until everything is done. Why adding half cooked rice is to prevent them making mushy rice. This one is spicy, so make sure to dial back the spices depending upon your tolerance level.

Trust me you can serve this one pot Mexican rice and beans any cold wintery day, you don’t need to spend a whole lot to time in the kitchen. It makes your dinner simple and wholesome and easy with star ingredient Progresso®  Light Soup Zesty Southwestern-Style Vegetable.

Make sure to remove the Progresso® Light Soup can’s label to save the Box Tops for Education™ off of them for a local school before recycling the can. Schools get 10 cents for every Box Tops for Education™ saved and are able to purchase things that the school is needing from them.

Here is another favorite Progresso® Light Soup  New England Clam Chowder which I serve like this with some crackers and  grape tomatoes, it is great appetizer .

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Swathi

This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread.  All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.