Mexican Rice Recipes

Mexican cooking is layered and vibrant — toasted chillies and charred aromatics built into salsas and slow-cooked dishes of real depth. When Mexican cooks work with rice, they reach for dried chillies, cumin, lime, coriander, garlic and tomatillos, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, roasting and steaming.

The everyday grain for half the planet — a neutral base that soaks up the flavours around it, from pilafs to fried rice. In this collection it's most often cooked with garlic, onion, smoked paprika, fine sea salt, fresh cilantro and tomatoes. The dishes here span mexican classics ready in as little as 35 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Charred Citrus Chicken Mexican is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 2,517 ratings.