Easy Dirty Rice Recipe

Dirty rice recipe is truly a one-pot meal. It is hearty and delicious while being so simple. I love cooking the rice in the same pan as the other ingredients. It makes this rice bowl recipe easy and perfect for a weekend night.

No need for lots of different pans or tons of complicated ingredients. Dirty Rice Recipe comes together quickly and easily for a meal everyone will enjoy. Try these other easy one pot recipes, One Pot Italian Chicken Pasta, Easy One Pot Spaghetti Recipe and One Pot Cheesy Taco Pasta Recipe.

What is Dirty Rice?

It is a delicious combination of rice, ground beef, onion and green pepper all blended together with seasoning. You are going to love this rice dish that is hearty and filling enough to be the main dish!

If you are short on time and need a simple meal, try this delicious Louisiana Dirty Rice Recipe that is sometimes called rice dressing. It does not get any simpler and everyone will enjoy it.

Why Make Dirty Rice

I love One Pot Meals! It makes cleanup so much easier and we spend less time in the kitchen and more family time.

This one pot meal does not disappoint. It is also frugal and a great way to stretch your meat. The rice and vegetables help to make the ground beef go even further!

Ingredients

• Ground Beef – Feel free to make with ground turkey
• Garlic Cloves, minced – Learn How to Mince Garlic Cloves
• Celery Ribs and Green Bell Pepper – Chop into small pieces
• Medium Onion, finely chopped – You can use green onion as well
• Worcestershire Sauce – You can also make Homemade Worcestershire Sauce Recipe
• Uncooked Long-Grain Rice – You can also use white rice or brown rice
• Broth – You can use beef broth or chicken broth

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Dirty Rice Recipe Variation

We love simple recipes like this and everyone looks forward to when this recipe is on the menu plan for that week. This recipe is the perfect meal that you can change it up with what you have leftover or in your freezer storage container.

• Change Meat – With this recipe you can also use ground sausage, ground pork, ground chicken or even chicken livers instead of ground beef or even try it with ground turkey.
• Add Extra Vegetables – It is also a great way to sneak in some veggies!
• Spices – Simply add creole seasonings or Cajun seasoning to the rice if you would like to try it with a little Cajun heat. This will make it a classic Cajun recipe. You can even add ½ teaspoon salt, thyme, cayenne pepper, oregano, and paprika.

How to Make Dirty Rice

• Step 1 – Add ground beef, garlic cloves, onion, celery, parsley and green pepper and cook over medium heat until meat is no longer pink in large skillet or a Dutch Oven.

• Step 2 – Stir in salt, red pepper, black pepper and Worcestershire sauce – cook stirring often.
• Step 3 – Add the rice, broth, ¾ cup water, stirring well with a wooden spoon.
• Step 4 – Salt and pepper to taste. You can also add bay leaves to the mixture.
• Step 5 – Bring to a boil, cover reduce heat to medium high heat and simmer 25 minutes or until rice is tender. Remove from the heat.
• Step 6 – Finally, remove the lid. Fluff the rice with a fork and Stir to combine.

Recipe Tips

• Double Ground Beef – When I am making taco meat for dinner, I will go ahead and brown another batch so I can easily freeze it for another meal. I try to always keep several bags of already browned ground beef in my freezer. So I can easily pull out a bag of frozen ground beef and make this dirty rice recipe. See How to Freeze Ground beef AFTER you brown it.
• Chopping Veggies – Another time saving tip is to use a small food processor or vegetable chopper to quickly and easily chop onions and peppers. If you do not have one of these, I highly recommend them.
• Cooking Beef – If your beef is sticking the pan, add a little bit of olive oil to the pan to help prevent it from sticking.
• Type of Skillet – We like to use a cast iron skillet to cook the dirty rice but any large skillet will work. You can even make in a Large Dutch Oven.

What to Serve with Dirty Rice?

We like to serve this easy dirty rice with cornbread muffins! You can even serve it with this coleslaw recipe or a nice big salad. These are my favorite side dish to serve with dirty rice.

We love how you can make this recipe work for your family!