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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This was soooo good!!! Made it exactly as posted and I love it!I may try a beef/sausage mix next time to see the difference, but it is seriously delicious as is! Thanks for sharing!!
I Love dirty rice, so yummy, Thank You!
I made it just as prescribed! Delicious! Will be making it again! So glad I ignored the box of Zatarains sitting in my cupboard!
I made this today and made your drop biscuits to go with this. absolutely delicious. Of course I added a little more seasoning such as ground thyme, oregano, chili powder, cayenne pepper and two bay leave. Other than that this recipe was amazing. Thank you!
I actually add the Zatarans to this recipe for added flavor and use breakfast sausage!
I made this recipe tonight with fried catfish and cornbread and it was amazing! I actually forgot my garlic and only had about a cup of beef broth left from another recipe but substituted the rest with water and a few beef bullion cubes and it was still on point! So glad I found this simple recipe I’ll have it for years now.
This is one of my family’s favorite dishes. Even my more picky eater will go back for seconds. It also tastes good using ground sage sausage. Thank you for posting.
Forgot to mention that I use brown rice instead of white rice. I cook the brown rice in beef broth separately in a rice cooker and then blend everything together.
This Dirty Rice was the best ever. It was more than I expected. My family loved it. Thanks for sharing!
I also tweeked with ground pork and a half tsp of ground sage and Celery seed. Excellent!
I made this again today and doubled the recipe. 1lb ground pork/1 lb grou D beef. My son doesn’t care for veggies, but he’ll eat them in a well seasoned dish. I added chopped fresh spinach…. aka: chives 😉
I’ve also in the past added fresh chopped carrots. He eats more veggies than he knows.
Just made this tonight. I was a little generous with the Cajun seasoning, and also added a can of petite diced tomatoes. I’m really looking forward to lunch the rest of the week now, this is a great meal prep dish.
Love this recipe! I make it with blackened fish or salmon. All it needs is a butter sauce for my fish.
This dish is absolutely amazing! I made it almost just as the recipe states, except I added a bit more Cajun seasoning, a sprig of fresh thyme and two bay leaves. I served it with collard greens, blackened chicken, stewed okra and cornbread. The kids went for seconds and even thirds of the rice!