This Easy Dirty Rice is the perfect recipe! Made with cajun seasoning, ground beef, white rice, celery, onion, and garlic this dish is flavor packed!
If you’re looking for a go-to side dish that is packed with flavor, then you’re going to love this easy recipe. Of course it can easily be a one pan meal on its own as well. Dirty Rice cooks in one pot and tastes great with a variety of dishes. The authentic cajun flavor shines through in this flavorful dish! We loves serving this for dinner as a simple side with oven Baked Chicken Thighs or Cajun Garlic Baked Salmon!
What is dirty rice?
Dirty rice is a classic Creole recipe. It’s made with with white rice and cajun flavors. The “dirty” name comes from the dirty color it gets from being cooked with ground beef, green bell pepper, celery, onions and seasonings. These ingredients also add a lot of flavor.
How to make easy dirty rice
This rice dish cooks in a large Dutch oven or pan in less than 35 minutes.
- First, cook the beef. Add the ground beef to a large pan set over medium heat. Crumble the beef with a spatula and cook for 5 minutes, or until the beef is no longer pink.
- Next, add the onion, garlic, green bell pepper, celery, Cajun seasoning and salt. Cook for 5 minutes, then add the rice and beef broth.
- Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 20 to 23 minutes.
- Allow the rice to rice for 5 to 10 minutes and then fluff the rice with a fork.
- Serve the rice with your favorite main dish, or eat it as a main meal along with a side of the easiest ever Drop Biscuits!
Enjoy!
Dirty Rice
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 medium onion diced
- 1 bell pepper diced
- 1 cup celery diced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 cups white rice uncooked
- 3 1/2 cups beef broth
- chopped green onion or parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Add ground beef to a dutch oven or heavy bottomed pan set over medium heat. Crumble with a spatula and cook 4-5 minutes until no pink remains.
- Add onion, garlic, green pepper, celery, Cajun seasoning, and salt. Stir until softened, about 5 minutes.
- Add rice and beef broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer covered about 20 to 23 minutes or until rice is cooked.
- Allow to sit for 5 to 10 minutes, then fluff with a fork. Garnish with green onions or parsley before serving.
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Nutrition
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I left out the bell pepper because I didn’t have any and added some hot smoked pepper powder. Yummy
Just finished making it as your recipe stated. Delicious!!! Made corn on the cob and fresh tomatoes for sides!
I love the recipe so much .
Came Out Great !
For a slightly healthier version, I used brown rice and ground turkey. Very good!
Love this recipe! Like everyone does I tweaked mine a little. I have a very picky eater so I hide vegetable anyway I can with her. I didn’t add the celery I skinned 1 whole zucchini and copped it up in very small pieces that it almost looked like the rice. I cooked that up quickly with the ground beef and did everything as listed excepted added 2 bay leaves and some celery seeds! My daughter couldn’t even tell the difference and had 2 helpings! That’s a win for this mom and the recipe is a keeper for sure! Thanks for sharing.
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I used 2 tablespoons of seasoning not 2 teaspoons.. Couldnt.figure out why my eyes were watering….
Goodness!!! Still a great recipe.. Next time I’ll not mess up!
This is my favorite recipe for dirty rice! My family requests it often. Instead of ground beef, I use pork sausage. Thank you so much for sharing this tasty recipe.
We use cooked chicken, shrimp or smoked sausage or all 3
Outstanding! It has ‘that’ flavor! I winged it a bit and used rice that was already cooked from the fridge, and simply steamed it in the end a bit and mixed it into the meat and caramelized vegetables. I was pleasantly surprised that this tasted sort of like Zattarains, but obviously better! Excellent recipe! Thanks!
Delicious! Just the right amount of spice! I used some andouille sausage instead of the ground beef but next time I will do both. Well done!