Easiest Way to Make Perfect Spinach and Shrimp Rice Bake

Spinach and Shrimp Rice Bake. Squeeze all water from the spinach. Combine all ingredients, except bread crumbs and butter, in a bowl and stir carefully. In a casserole dish that has been sprayed with PAM, pour in the mix.

When the garlic is fragrant, add chicken broth and scrape the browned butter, garlic, and shrimp juices from the bottom of the pan so they mix in with the broth, then add some spinach. Finish up the sauce by adding heavy cream, and a bit of cornstarch to thicken the sauce. Serve, sprinkled with feta and mint and drizzled with oil. You can have Spinach and Shrimp Rice Bake using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Spinach and Shrimp Rice Bake

1. It's 4 pounds of shrimp (peeled and deveined).
2. It's 4 cups of minute rice.
3. Prepare 2 cans of low sodium chicken broth.
4. It's 1 (16 ounce) of bag frozen chopped spinach.
5. You need 6 cloves of garlic, minced.
6. Prepare 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper.
7. Prepare 1/8 teaspoon of crushed red pepper.
8. Prepare 1 tablespoon of oregano leaves.
9. Prepare 1 tablespoon of Sazon with achiote.
10. You need 1 of onion, sliced.
11. It's of Olive oil cooking spray.
12. It's 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese OR any other cheese you have.

In a small pan, melt the butter and add the onion. Cook for a couple minutes to soften. Scrape onion and butter into a large mixing bowl. When rice is cooked, add to the bowl along with the cheese.

Spinach and Shrimp Rice Bake step by step

1. In a large pot prepare rice by boiling both cans of chicken broth, then add to broth frozen spinach, minced garlic, black pepper, crushed red pepper, oregano leaves, Sazon, sliced onion and rice, stir until all ingredients are combined and cover pot until rice is cooked thru.......set pot to the side......
2. Make sure your shrimp are cleaned and deveined, then add shrimp to a large baking pan that has been sprayed with olive oil cooking spray.......
3. Pour your spinach / rice mixture all over shrimp and stir gently........
4. Spread your shredded cheese mixture all over shrimp and rice mixture.......
5. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 30 minutes or until all cheese has melted.......
6. Serve and enjoy 😉!!!!.

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