logo

Zesty Cilantro Rice Bowl

Ready to kick your bowl up a notch? This Zesty Cilantro Rice Bowl brings the flavor with Bush’s® Southwest Zest Pinto Beans, juicy steak, and a creamy avocado lime drizzle.

  • Prep Time

    10 Mins

  • Cook Time

    25 Mins

  • Serves

    4

A hand reaches into frame to sprinkle cilantro onto the zesty cilantro rice bowl, a blue bowl topped with steak, beans, corn, cotija, and cilantro

Need Ingredients?

Share this with your bean friends

Ingredients

Serves: 4
  • Zesty Cilantro Rice Bowl
  • 1 ripe avocado, pitted and peeled
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 1 small clove garlic
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1 pound skirt steak
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 cups corn kernels
  • 3 cups cooked brown rice
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
  • 1 can Southwest Zest Pinto Beans
  • 1 small jalapeño, thinly sliced
  • Crumbled Cotija, for serving

Need Ingredients?

Share this with your bean friends

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1
    COMBINE

    Combine the avocado, lime juice, garlic, and sour cream in a blender or food processor and puree until smooth. Set aside.

    • Avocado

    • Lime juice

    • Garlic

    • Sour cream

  2. 2
    COOK

    Season the skirt steak with salt and pepper. Heat a heavy-bottomed pan over medium-high heat for 1 minute. Add the butter and swirl it to coat the pan. Add the steak and cook until medium-rare, 12 to 15 minutes, flipping once. Transfer the steak to a cutting board and let it rest 10 minutes.

    • Skirt steak

    • Salt and pepper

    • Butter

  3. 3
    COOK

    While the steak is resting, add the corn kernels to the same pan in the steak drippings and cook over medium heat until the color is bright and some of the kernels begin to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

    • Corn

    • Salt and pepper

  4. 4
    HEAT

    In a separate pan, heat the Southwest Zest Pinto Beans. Slice the steak into bite-sized pieces.

    • Southwest Zest Pinto Beans

  5. 5
    TOSS

    Toss the cooked brown rice with the cilantro and divide them among 4 bowls. Top with the steak, corn, Southwest Zest Pinto Beans, jalapeños, Cotija, and drizzle with the avocado crema.

    • Rice

    • Cilantro

Products featured in this recipe