Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Pepper rice skillet
Uses the pepper before it wrinkles. Onion, garlic, oil, leftover rice. Cumin if you want it. It should catch, not stew.
The sheet · 4 bowls · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Uses the pepper before it wrinkles. Onion, garlic, oil, leftover rice. Cumin if you want it. It should catch, not stew.
What it needs
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- rice
- bell pepper
- onion
- garlic
- olive oil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: cumin.
Method
- Peppers and onion in olive oil over medium heat until the edges catch and the peppers go sweet. Fifteen minutes, not five.
- Garlic, then the rice, stirred in the oil until the grains turn glassy.
- Measured liquid, lid on, lowest heat, eighteen minutes without lifting it.
- Off the heat, still covered, ten minutes. Then turn the heat up under the pan for two minutes at the end for a crust on the bottom, and serve it scraped up through the rest.
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- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Knife skillsHow To Dice OnionsAmerica's Test KitchenWalks through the claw grip and the two cuts that turn a whole onion into an even dice.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepThe Best Way to Mince Garlic | Serious Eats At HomeSerious EatsCompares the knife methods for garlic, including when to take it all the way to paste.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rice
- Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
- bell pepper
- Sweetness and water. Raw it is crunch, blistered under a broiler it goes silky and smoky and stops tasting like a salad bar — that char is most of the reason to buy them.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
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