Side Dish

Caribbean Beans and Rice is for Side Dish.

Caribbean Beans and Rice takes several minutes to prepare.

Caribbean Beans and Rice takes several minutes to cook.

Caribbean Beans and Rice makes 14 servings.

The ingredients for Caribbean Beans and Rice are:

olive oil
1 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 red pepper, seeded and finely chopped
white wine (to taste)
2 tbsp chopped fresh thyme
2 cups uncooked long-grain rice (jasmine works well)
1 can can coconut milk
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 can white bean variety (small white, navy beans, etc), drained and rinsed
salt and freshly ground black pepper
fresh thyme leaves to garnish
hot sauce (I prefer Marie Sharp's)

Here is how you make Caribbean Beans and Rice:

1. Cook the rice with your usual preferred method (I like cooking in microwave on 50% power for 15 minutes with a 5 minute rest after: one part rice to two parts water and a T of oil), but substitute the coconut milk (stir before emptying can btw) for part of the water. So instead of 4 cups of water for our two cups of uncooked rice, use the can of coconut milk and however much water in addition you need to equal 4 cups of liquid. 2. While the rice is cooking, heat the oil in a large dutch oven pan, add the onion and peppers and cook gently for 3?4 minutes until softened. Stir in the garlic and cook until tender, using white wine to deglaze the pan as needed.3. Dump the beans into the dutch oven over the onion mix, stirring to heat. Mix in the thyme. Stir in the rice (mix well), adding salt, pepper, and hot sauce to to taste and scatter over some fresh thyme leaves to garnish.Rice tastes even better after flavors meld so its perfectly fine to freeze or fridge and warm up later in microwave.Serving Size: makes 14 half cup servingsNumber of Servings: 14Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JENNIPARKS.

The nutritional information for Caribbean Beans and Rice is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 14
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 189.0

• Total Fat: 5.0 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 7.5 mg
• Total Carbs: 29.6 g
• Dietary Fiber: 4.6 g
• Protein: 7.1 g

The dietary needs meet for Caribbean Beans and Rice is Vegetarian