Instant Beef Rice Creole

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 2 tablespoons parsley
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 dash dried thyme
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 (8 ounce) can whole tomatoes
• 1 1/2 cups uncooked instant rice (i use brown)
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Recipe

• 1 cook and stir ground beef in a 10 inch skillet until light brown; drain. sprinkle beef with flour and salt. stir in green pepper, onion, parsley, pepper, garlic, bay leaf and thyme.
• 2 cooke and stir over low heat until onion is tender, about 5 inutes.
• 3 stir water and tomatoes with liquid into beef mixture; break up tomatoes with fork.
• 4 heat to boiling; reduce heat.
• 5 cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
• 6 stir in rice; remove from heat. cover and let stand for 5 minutes.