Arroz negro ("black rice") is aMexican dish made with rice, in which its dark color comes from black bean broth. The dark broth is made by cooking black beans with onion and butter in sufficient water. Rice is fried with garlic, then the bean broth is added, as well asepazote,serrano pepper, andsalt. The rice issimmered until tender.^[1]

It should not be confused withBlack rice as a variety of rice, rather than a recipe, such as Indonesian black rice, Philippine balatinaw rice, and Thai jasmine black rice, these have natural color while the MexicanArroz negro obtains this color from the black bean broth.

The traditional recipe comes from southern regions asOaxaca andCampeche. And of course every family prepares it in a different way, but the main ingredients for thearroz negro are rice, black bean broth, onion, epazote, serrano, pepper and salt.

There are many other related dishes to the arroz negro. Some of them are therisotto nero^[2] (Venice, Italy),octopus with black rice and shrimpArchived 2017-11-01 at theWayback Machine,^[3] and some others.

• List of Mexican dishes

• Peña Vásquez, Cuauhtémoc. (2010).¡Mucho gusto! Gastronomía y turismo cultural en el Istmo de Tehuantepec. Educal.ISBN 6074554889.
• Del Castillo, María. (1966).Cocina mexicana. Ed. Olimpo.

• Process to cook arroz negro

• Mexican rice dishes

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