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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

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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
  • 1 lb skirt steak
  • Salt and pepper
  • 3 Tbsp unsalted butter
  • 2 cups corn kernels
  • 1 can (15 oz) Bush’s® Southwest Zest Pinto Beans
  • 3 cups cooked brown rice
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
  • 1 small jalapeño, thinly sliced
  • Crumbled cotija, for serving

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Cooking Instructions

  1. 1
    COMBINE

    Combine 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 skirt steak with salt and pepper. Heat a heavy-bottomed pan over medium-high heat for 1 minute. Add butter and swirl it to coat pan. Add steak and cook until medium-rare, 12-15 minutes or until internal temperature is at least 145 degrees F, flipping once. Transfer steak to cutting board and let it rest at least 3 minutes.

    • Skirt steak

    • Salt and pepper

    • Butter

  3. 3
    COOK

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

    • Corn

    • Salt and pepper

  4. 4
    HEAT

    In a separate pan, heat pinto beans. Slice steak into bite-sized pieces.

    • Pinto Beans

  5. 5
    TOSS

    Toss cooked brown rice with cilantro and divide among 4 bowls. Top with steak, corn, pinto beans, jalapeños, and cotija, and drizzle with avocado crema.

    • Rice

    • Cilantro

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