- 1/2 to 1 pound ground beef or ground turkey
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 cups cooked rice (leftover)
- 8 ounce can tomato sauce, or 1 cup chopped tomatoes (canned or fresh)
- 1/2 cup water
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup shredded cheese
In a large skillet fry the hamburger or turkey and onion until the meat is uniformly grey and brown, and the onion is tender and fragrant. Drain off any fat if necessary. Add the brown rice, tomato, water, salt and pepper. Mix it all up, breaking the rice into small pieces if it clumps. Cover the skillet and simmer for 10 minutes. Add a little more water if necessary. Sprinkle the cheese over top and serve. As written, this recipe serves 4 folks of medium appetites. I double the recipe to feed my family, who eat like starving people on a desert island.
If you like, you can add a chopped green pepper or 2 stalks of chopped celery along with the onion at the beginning. Another idea is to add a cup of frozen mixed vegetables, or pretty much any vegetable you have sitting around that you would like to use up. This is a very sturdy dish, and difficult to ruin. If you double the recipe, use a full pound of ground beef or turkey, and add a 16 ounce bag of frozen vegetables. Easy skillet meal. Add some fruit and a salad and the family will smile.
This was such a hit with the kids and hubby! Tastes just like a stuffed green pepper without the work of stuffing the peppers! Not only was it good, it was filling and cheap.
I thought the rice hamburger helper was great!!! I miss it alot, I thought it was filling and soooooo Gooooood!!!!!! BRING IT BACK, for RETRO sake!!!!
I add 2 tablespoons of chili powder and it’s Spanish Rice.
Add 2 cups of cooked beans to that and it’s Mexican Casserole.
But I hadn’t thought of the bell pepper, all the flavor of stuffed peppers without the high price of all those peppers.
Thanks for sharing with us.
I made this tonight and it was a hit. Since I didn’t add any vegetables into the skillet, I made some green beans as a side dish. My family of 5 gave it 6 thumbs up (my youngest gave it 2 thumbs up).
Very good and quite filling!
We skipped the cheese and added spicy diced tomatoes and some tomato paste – it really does taste a lot like stuffed peppers! I’ll have to keep the recipe in mind for next summer.
Maybe I’m missing something, but this recipe has no flavor to it. I tried adding extra salt & pepper and even some Italian seasoning and it’s still horribly bland. The kids flat out refused to eat it and the adults choked it down only because we were hungry.