Should state that while we enjoyed this greatly, we also changed it A LOT.\u00a0 My household doesn’t like green chili – so I took that out, added half an orange pepper, a couple of garlic cloves, 3 healthy pinches of cayenne, a few blops of paprika, and a sprinkling of turmeric.\u00a0 Still had the spicy, didn’t have the green chili.<\/p>\n
1\/4 c butter
\n1 c chopped onion
\n(1\/2 green or red or orange pepper)
\n(2 cloves garlic, diced)
\n4 c freshly cooked white rice
\n2 c sour cream
\n1 c cream-style cottage cheese
\n1 large bay leaf, crumbled
\n1\/2 tsp salt
\n1\/8 tsp pepper
\n3 cans (4 oz) green chiles, drained and halved lengthwise, leaving seeds
\n2 c grated, sharp, Cheddar cheese<\/p>\n
Preheat oven to 375.\u00a0 Lightly grease 2 quart baking dish.\u00a0 Melt butter in a large skillet, saute the onion (and the garlic and the pepper, if doing our variant).\u00a0 Remove from heat.\u00a0 Stir in hot rice, sour cream, cottage cheese, bay leaf, salt, pepper, (and turmeric and cayenne and paprika, if using our variant.)\u00a0 Mix well.\u00a0 Layer half the rice mixture in the bottom of the baking dish, sprinkle with half the cheese.\u00a0 Repeat.\u00a0 Bake for 25 minutes, or until bubbly and hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Should state that while we enjoyed this greatly, we also changed it A LOT.\u00a0 My household doesn’t like green chili – so I took that out, added half an orange pepper, a couple of garlic cloves, 3 healthy pinches of cayenne, a few blops of paprika, and a sprinkling of turmeric.\u00a0 Still had the spicy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,214],"tags":[46,136,259],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing","category-vegetarian","tag-cheese","tag-mccalls","tag-veget"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}