Rice and bean recipes?

[moof]

Ever since my poor mother's attempts to introduce plain white rice with plain red beans topped with plain steamed broccolli I have steered clear.  Call it a mental block.

So after reading a buzzfeed article about eating healthy on $50 a week with a bunch of bean and rice recipes I took a shot, winging it.

I took a quarter of a jumbo onion diced, some olive oil, a teaspoon of chili powder, a half teaspoon of cumin, sautéd for five minutes.  Then add half a bell pepper chopped up, and a couple cloves of garlic after a few minutes.  I served it over some Trader Joe's brown rice.  It was great, even my 4 year old ate hit all up.

So now I am looking for good and easy ways to get on the dry bean wagon, recipes for brown rice that don't suck (all of my attempts suck compare to TJ's frozen brown rice), and good recipes to make with them.

[Travis]

This should get you started.

http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/share-your-badassity/rice-and-beans-share-your-recipe/

If you do a search in Off Topics for "beans rice" there are a handful of threads with random recipes.

[HipGnosis]

Brown Rice Perfected

Note  brown rice doubles in volume when it cooks

4 parts* water for ea part* (dry) rice     *-like cups

boil water  in a pot with a lid
Rinse rice in a strainer under cold running water for 30 seconds, swirling the rice around 
When water boils, add the rice, stir it once. 
Turn heat to medium and boil, uncovered, for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. 
Turn off the heat.  Pour the rice into a strainer over the sink. 
Let the rice drain for 10 seconds, then return it to the pot. 
Cover the pot with a tight-fitting lid and set it aside for 10 minutes
(if your pot lid isn’t extremely tight, place a piece of aluminum foil over pot then place the lid on).

Uncover rice (careful of steam!), fluff and season with salt to taste.

The boiling cooks the rice, while the subsequent steaming allows the grains to retain their integrity and come out light and fluffy.

[marielle]

This could make the rice significantly more expensive at first, but you could try using coconut milk in substitute for some of the water. I have a hard time eating rice but this helps a ton. Maybe over time you could add less and less coconut milk.

Coconut cream (trader joes) might be cheaper since it's thicker but you can use less of it at a time for flavor.

Also, don't skip the rinsing part of rice cooking. Super important.

This is one of my favorite recipes (especially considering I hate rice), though I haven't tried it with brown rice:

https://www.budgetbytes.com/2011/07/yellow-jasmine-rice/

[Lanthiriel]

Not rice and beans, but pasta and beans: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/25318/southwestern-vegetarian-pasta/

I make this with whole wheat elbow pasta and add a can of black beans and some cayenne pepper. It makes about 10 servings and is DELICIOUS.