In every family where one finds a beloved cook, there are always a few recipes that just don’t taste them same anywhere else. In my family, that beloved cook was my Litah, my grandmother Maria Theresa. Gone from this world now for almost thirty years, the food that she used to serve at her table in the days of my earliest youth still make a regular appearance on my dinner table today.

With great thanks to my father, who passed these traditions on down to me, I now present to you this recipe for Mexican Rice that I have never tasted anywhere else outside the tables of my own family. This simple, yet elegant, side dish can be made to come with a subtle spicy edge and is versatile enough to add the perfect contrast flavor to almost any Mexican meal.

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