I lovee Chipotle. I loove Panera. I do not looove spending $8-10 on dinner every night. However, I am lazy and so whatever I make either needs to produce enough to eat for a few meals or be really freakin quick. (Less than a half hour for all prep and cook time, thanks.)

So naturally I get excited whenever I see recipes that incorporate some of my favorite things with little cook time - garlic, shrimp and rice all in one dish? You can bet I’m going to make it, probably at least twice a week.

This rice recipe is from the Tipsy Society blog, which I love. And it is Friday, which means it’s $50 Friday over at the Tipsy Society, and after reading their post I generally want to run to Target and/or Forever 21 ASAP.

Anyway. Here is the rice recipe and the wonderfully blurrrry iPhone pictures because I still haven’t charged my camera since I got home from Australia…December 10.

Says Tipsy’s Amanda:

Rice
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp butter
1/2 chopped onion
1 tsp minced garlic (or that little jar of roasted garlic sooooo easy)
1 tsp salt
1 cup rice
2 cups chicken broth

Heat pan on medium heat and and add olive oil and butter. Add chopped onion, stir and let sit for a minute. Add minced garlic and heat until onion is soft. Add rice and stir to coat the rice. Heat until rice turns a slight
brownish color. Add salt and chicken broth. Increase heat to boil, turn heat down to low. Heat on low for 14 minutes, stir.

Her recipe suggests making chipotle shrimp with this rice, but I did not have all the ingredients on hand, so my shrimp got some salt, pepper, parsley, chicken & meat seasoning (aka random delicious spices) and were sauteed up in a pan with some olive oil and then green beans.

Here is what all I used peeps:

Ingredients (also beans, but they were in the fridge during this pic)

Since I forgot to take pictures until half way through, bad quality though I knew they would be, I will just skip ahead and show you the final product:

Delizioso! *Kisses fingers* (This is not an Italian meal but whatever, it's my blog.)

I might actually try this recipe recipe next time with orzo, I think that would be really good too. Definitely want to try the Chipotle version of the shrimp that Tipsy Society suggested as well.

Besides being really good, the best part of this recipe is how quick it is! It took me  just about 20 minutes to make, and with an episode of Friends on in the background I was good to go.

Easy-peasy! (Lemon-squeezy?)