Rice with Coca Cola is a delicious and easy side dish. It's perfect to serve with beef, pork or chicken.
To make Rice with Coca-Cola you will need
Long Grain White Rice: Be sure to wash the rice well to remove the some of the starch, this allow the rice to be fluffy. If you’d like to use brown rice for this recipe, increase liquid by ½ cup and cook for about 40 minutes, following the same cooking instructions.
Coca Cola: Use regular coke, diet coke doesn't give this rice the sweetness that I like.
Oil: I like to use canola or vegetable oil for this recipe rice, but butter also works well.
Chicken Bouillon: Granules or cubes, this adds flavor to the rice. If you prefer substitute with vegetables bouillon.
Water: Or use chicken broth, if you want to omit the chicken bouillon.
Scallions: Add more flavor and texture to the rice.
Rice with Coca-Cola Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup long-grain white rice
- 1 ½ cups coca-cola
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablet chicken bouillon
- 2 tablespoons butter or oil
- 3 tablespoons chopped scallions
Instructions
- Place the rinsed rice in a medium saucepan; then add the butter, coca-cola, water, chicken bouillon and scallions.
- Bring to a boil over medium high heat. Stir once, cover, reduce the heat to low, and cook for 20 minutes, remove the pan from the stove, and let it sit for 5 minutes. Fluff the rice using a fork and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Arroz con Coca-Cola (Coca-Cola Rice) makes a delicious accompaniment to roasted pork or roasted chicken. This dish is very popular in Colombia and I remember my aunt serving this rice in every celebration.
Plain boiled long grain white rice is eaten by most people in Colombia every day, but for entertaining this particular recipe for Arroz con Coca-Cola is very easy to follow and simply delicious. Serve it as a side dish with your favorite protein, stuff it into a burrito, or use it as the base of a burrito bowl.
You can keep this rice in the fridge in a sealed container up to 2 days. This Rice with Coca Cola is sweet and flavorful, elegant enough to serve on a dinner party or just for a weeknight meal. This rice recipe is one of my favorite ways to make rice.
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Anonymous
Erica,
This is a great tasting rice dish. Thank you!
Gillian
This looks SO GOOD. I am going to try it as soon as I can get to the supermarket to get Coke. I bet it's good with vegetable bullion cube too (instead of chicken). This is site is incredible, I can't believe how much work you've done already. Great pictures too...
Sapuche
Wow, I never imagined cooking rice with Coca-Cola! I'm definitely going to give this a try. Thanks for posting this!
Erica
Thanks for all the comments.
The rice is a little sticky and sweet. Try it!
Lori Lynn
That is the most interesting dish I've seen all month!
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Michelle
I cooked this on Sunday and my son loved it ! He calls it 'sweet rice '. Will definitely make it again.
Stephanie
What a great recipe!! I would never think to cook rice in coke! My husband would love this! He loves anything sweet...I have a ham recipe with a coke glaze that is one of his favorite dishes.
I really like your blog! Your pictures are amazing!! Makes me want to try all of your recipes!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and following! 🙂
lisa
What a nice thing to say Stephanie!
Sofia
Ayer cocine este arroz y quedo delicioso! Es dulce y fabuloso. Gracias por la receta.
Alejandra
I made this rice for lunch last week and was really good. Thank you!
Sandra Milena
This rice with coke was delicious with pork!!! Thank you so much for this site and these wonderful Colombian dishes. They bring good memories.
Erica
Thank you everyone for the comments! Glad you liked it!
Anonymous
Soooo good. My wife absolutely loves it! This will stay in the cookbook forever
Lori
Delicious rice. I made it for a party last weekend and everyone loved it.
Heather
What a delicious rice....all my family and friends loved it. Thanks for the recipe.
Steph@PlainChicken
what a great recipe. I am going to make this soon!
Eninah
Coca-Cola? That's cool. Colas can be also used for cooking. Geez thanks for a nice idea.
mary
thank you for publishing the recipe.I knew it by I was not sure about the ingredidients .I did prepare it for thanks given and my daughter Sally Love it
thanks again
mary
Anonymous
This rice with coke is amazing all my family loved it.I will make it again soon.
Patricia
I made this rice dish for Thanksgiving dinner and everyone loved it and it was perfect with the turkey. It was sweet and delicious. This is the best Colombian food site. Thanks!
Ann
I remember eating this when I lived in Colombia. I thought it was the strangest combination, but it was always delicious! Thanks for posting this! What fond memories!
Caroll Buitrago
Gracias por difundir nuestra comida. Es chistoso fomo para algunas personas es tan raro y aun lo cocinan. Por mi parte, ya habia pensado hacer este arroz "exotico" para compartir en Navidad con la familia de mi esposo y con mis papas que vienen de visita desde Colombia. Dios te bendiga y a tu familia.
Matinaki
Thank you so much for this recipe! My boyfriend is Colombian and this is one of his favorite recipes that i have heard so much about but never tasted! I will definitely be making this tomorrow 🙂
Anonymous
This is the best rice!!! Thank you for the wonderful recipe.
question
On this coke and rice recipe, is it 1 and one half cups coke, or just one half cup coke? Thanks.
Erica
1 and 1/2 cups.
peter mac
sorry to bother you but one cup of water and one and a half cups of coke seem,s like a lot of liquid.is this right?
Erica
Peter- I use 2/1/2 cups of liquid, but if you want your rice drier, use less liquid about 2 cups.
Rebecca
when you add the rice, does it have to be cooked rice or just the dry rice that isnt cooked yet.?
Erica
Rebecca- Uncooked rice.
Angie
Erica,
Once again, going through your recipes is like going through my mom's kitchen. She used to cook this rice in special ocassions and we loved it. She also added raisins because we loved the sweet taste combined with whatever main dish she was serving (usually pernil asado). Thank you for posting this recipe!
Dinie
Wow... I thought this was a joke post... Rice and Coca Cola?? I've heard of meat being barbequed with Cola.. But rice... I don't know...Maybe I will have to use this recipe in the summer with bbq pork chops!
Ali
This blog has best recipes for Colombian food. Thanks!
Heather
We made this rice with cola on Sunday for a BBQ and it was delicious. Very different, but really good!
Joy
Hi Erica,
This is an awesome dish!I wish I knew about it when I needed something fast but tasty to make.
I’m Joy, a photographer for Spoon University, and I’m writing a story about your recipe. If it’s okay with you, I’d love to use this photo (https://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Arroz-con-Coca-Cola1.jpg)/ in the article and of course give you proper photo credit.
If you could let me know as soon as possible, that would be great.
Thanks so much ahead of time.
Erica Dinho
Hi Joy, Yes, with credit to the blog. Thanks!
Joy
Yes of course!! Thank you !
Debbie
I made this rice with coca-cola yesterday for dinner and served it with roasted chicken. It was a hit with my kids, we all loved it. I will be making this arroz con coca-cola again very soon!
Peter
I make this rice once a week and it's a hit. Everyone loves this rice with cola.
Mike
This arroz con coca-cola recipe is very easy to make and very good.
Patricia
So glad to have stumbled across your blog! Can’t wait to try your recipes. You’ve really opened up a whole new world of flavors for me! Thanks.
Alicia
Wonderful recipe. I make this rice with coca cola once a week and everyone in my family loves it.
Ana
I’m trying to make this recipe for vegetarians, but just wondering if vegetable broth instead of chicken bouillon would be a good replacement, or if it would change the flavor completely… thoughts please?
Erica Dinho
Yes.
James
This Arroz con Coca Cola is amazing. So easy to make and my family loves it. I will be making this dish again. Thank you for this rice with coca cola recipe.
Heather Padilla
Can this be made in a rice cooker rather than on the stove top?
Thanks!
Erica Dinho
Yes
Gene Schnider
Excellent blog post. I definitely appreciate this site. Thanks!
Erika Perez
Hi! If I use medium grain rice do I change anything else in the recipe?
Erica Dinho
Not really! I like to use long grain rice, because the rice is fluffy after cooked.
mollie duvall
This looks so interesting...can't wait to try. I got a rice cooker for Christmas. Has anyone cooked this in a rice cooker? If so, any tips?