Easy Cilantro Lime Rice

How to make Cilantro Lime Rice: the perfect staple for any meal! This easy side dish recipe comes together with little effort.

As far as side dish recipes go…this one is a staple that everyone needs. Try it out Cilantro Lime Rice Recipe! You can of course prepare a pot of rice as a side dish. But add cilantro, lime juice and lime zest and it takes it to a whole other level. The ways to serve it are endless: use it in burrito bowls (Chipotle style!), tacos, or as a side dish with grilled shrimp skewers. That is unbelievable versatile, and we do it often. Really, every meal tastes better with a little cilantro lime rice!

How to make Cilantro Lime Rice

This cilantro lime rice recipe is quick and easy, with just a few extra steps to cooking one pot of rice. But for the amount of flavor it adds, you’ll want to make it this way every time! It takes a pot of rice from bland to irresistible. Here are the basic steps:

• Cook the rice. It just starts! Use any long grain rice.
• Stir in the salt and garlic powder, then steam for 10 minutes. Take the rice off the stove. Quickly uncover and add garlic powder and salt, then cover and steam. This allows the spices to steep while the rice steams.
• Stir in the chopped cilantro, lime juice, and lime zest. Next, uncover and stir in the cilantro and lime! Using the juice and zest adds a tart flavor to the whole pot.

Use brown rice or white rice (make sure it’s long grain)

In our personal opinion, white rice tastes better than cilantro lime rice. But do you prefer brown rice? Brown rice over white rice has some health benefits. Use both here! Here’s what you need to know:

• Either way, use long grain rice. The short grain doesn’t offer the best texture for this type of rice.
• Brown rice works with the same instructions: just cook for 45 minutes instead of 15!

The serving size of this cilantro lime rice recipe

This recipe is written for 1 cup of rice, which experts say is usually 4 servings of rice. But that’s a pretty modest portion if you ask us! We wrote the following recipe for 1 cup of rice for ease of propagation in larger quantities. Use the ratio 1 cup of dry rice equals 3 cups of cooked rice.

• Make 1.5 times the recipe to get about 1 cup of rice per serving.
• Or double the recipe for a total of 6 cups. It also makes more for leftovers! Remember that when reheating rice, add a few tablespoons of water to help rehydrate it.

How to chop cilantro… fast!

The only area of ​​technique in this cilantro lime rice recipe? Chop coriander! If you are not used to this, it may seem time consuming. Luckily we have a quick way to do this:

• Remove Leaves Quickly: Hold the coriander roots with your non-cutting hand. Use a large chef’s knife to scrape the leaves in a downward motion. Then use your fingers to pull the large stalks off the coriander leaves.
• Chop coriander: Hold the tip of the blade with your non-cutting hand and rock the blade back and forth to chop the cilantro. Bring back the leaves in a pile and go over them several times with the knife until the pieces are the size you want!
• Watch the video: This video is useful to show the process!

Ways to serve cilantro lime rice

If we listed all the ways to serve this Cilantro Lime Rice recipe, we’d write a book! (It’s an interesting concept, actually…) Here are some of our best ways to serve it:

What’s your favorite way to serve cilantro rice? Let us know in the comments below!

This recipe for Cilantro Lime Rice is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free.

do you like coriander

Of course we know a lot of haters. But not us! Here are some cilantro recipes for using this tasty herb: