Blanca's Mexi Ranch Rice Bowl
This is a delicious meal I made last night that my whole family loved!
Mexi Ranch Rice
Ingredients -
1 Pound 90% Lean Ground Beef
1 Cup Of Corn (I use frozen)
1 Can Kidney Beans or Black Beans (About the same in calories)
1 Cup Of Cheese
1 TBSP Minced Garlic
Salt & Pepper
2 Cups Uncooked Brown Rice Brown Rice (or White Rice)
5 Cups Water
Salsa
Ranch Dressing
Lime Juice
Meat Topping -
Combine ground beef, garlic, salt & pepper to your pan. Cook ground beef mixture until beef is brown. Add corn and beans and cook for about 10 minutes on low until everything is heated through. Add cheese and heat until melted.
Rice -
Cook your rice per the directions on the bag. Brown rice takes 5 cups of water on the stove but will use less if cooking in a pressure cooker. See your pressure cooker instructions for more details. You can also use white rice but check your cooking directions for how much water to use as it uses less then brown rice. The calories are not much different.
Combine -
Once rice is cooked serve 1 cup in a bowl and then place a 1/2 cup serving the of the beef mixture on top. Add Mexi Ranch Dressing over the beef and rice. Mix together! Yummy! See information on the Mexi-Ranch Dressing below.
Mexi-Ranch Dressing -
Combine one half ranch dressing to one half salsa. Pretty much a 50/50 mix. Stir in a squeeze of lime juice. Add to taste, so play around with the recipe. Mix and drizzle over your meat & rice. I add about 2 tbsp to my one serving of rice and meat.
You can do a 25/75 ratio that is more salsa and less ranch for an even healthier dressing. It will also be less calories.
It's as easy as that!
Calories For The Meat Topping ~
Other Calories ~ Brown Rice For 1 Cup is 216 calories per cup. You should be able to find it in your calorie counting app.
Ranch is 140 Calories per 2 tbsps. Again, this should be easy to find in your calorie counting app.
Salsa is only 10 calories for 2 tbsps. Search in your calorie counting app.
So if you do a 50/50 ratio, you are looking at 75 calories per 2 tbsps of Mexi Ranch.
Total calories per serving: 491
