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Mexican Cauliflower Fried Rice {Paleo, Whole30, Keto}

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This Mexican Cauliflower Fried Rice is packed with veggies, protein, and lots of flavor and spice!  It’s topped with an easy guacamole and chipotle ranch sauce for a tasty, filling meal that’s Paleo, Whole30 compliant and keto friendly.  

This Mexican Cauliflower Fried Rice is packed with veggies, protein, and lots of flavor and spice!  It's topped with an easy guacamole and chipotle ranch sauce for a tasty, filling meal that's Paleo, Whole30 compliant and keto friendly.

This is one of those simple, yet really delicious and satisfying recipes that makes me LOVE paleo and Whole30 cooking!

True story – I wasn’t always on board with cauliflower rice.  I thought it was far too much of an effort to “rice” the cauliflower and I didn’t yet realize how tasty cauliflower fried rice could be!

My vision of cauli rice was a whole lot of mess with resulting boring mushy “rice” that tasted nothing like actual rice.

This Mexican Cauliflower Rice is packed with veggies, protein, and lots of flavor and spice!  It's topped with an easy guacamole and chipotle ranch sauce for a tasty, filling meal that's Paleo, Whole30 compliant and keto friendly.

Much like I had to accept that zucchini noodles weren’t actual noodles, I needed to accept that cauli rice wasn’t rice, but could be seriously awesome anyway.

I also needed to accept that I was going to have to compromise with myself and be lazy – I bought the pre-“riced” cauliflower at the grocery store and didn’t look back. For all of you who ain’t got no time for the mess – get the pre-riced cauli!  And, for those of you who like ricing your own – more power to you!

Anyway, cauli rice can definitely be awesome in its own right – it’s amazing sauteed/fried, and picks up all the flavors it mixes with like a dream.  When I first decided to make this chicken and bacon fried rice, I was completely sold – cauliflower rice can actually be pretty darn awesome.

This Mexican Cauliflower Rice is packed with veggies, protein, and lots of flavor and spice!  It's topped with an easy guacamole and chipotle ranch sauce for a tasty, filling meal that's Paleo, Whole30 compliant and keto friendly.

I knew I was due for another cauliflower fried rice recipe but I wanted to make the flavors really different than the last.

I decided to go the Mexican-inspired route since I’ve been on a big guacamole kick lately – it’s SO perfect to top off this cauli rice!

For the ground meat, I actually used a mixture of ground beef and ground chicken, just based on what was in my fridge.  You can use any ground meat at all, but I highly recommend one that’s a little less lean since it adds better flavor in my opinion.  That said, simply adding a bit more cooking fat if you use a leaner meat will work out just fine.

This Mexican Cauliflower Rice is packed with veggies, protein, and lots of flavor and spice!  It's topped with an easy guacamole and chipotle ranch sauce for a tasty, filling meal that's Paleo, Whole30 compliant and keto friendly.

The add-ins are super simple – onions, peppers, garlic, spices, diced green chilis and jalapeno.  The toppings make it over-the-top tasty!

I went with my chipotle ranch – which is probably my most-made mayo-based dip/sauce.  It goes with nearly everything and it’s so perfect here!

The guac also takes it to the next level – you get healthy fats, flavor, texture – the whole deal.   Also, if you’re planning to make this ahead of time, you can prepare everything in advance with the exception of the guacamole and be totally good to go with a toss in the skillet to reheat the fried rice.

I hope you’re ready for an easy and oh-so-yummy, filling and heathy meal – let’s get cooking!

Mexican Cauliflower Fried Rice {Paleo, Whole30, Keto}

This Mexican Cauliflower Rice is packed with veggies, protein, and lots of flavor and spice!  It's topped with an easy guacamole and chipotle ranch sauce for a tasty, filling meal that's Paleo, Whole30 compliant and keto friendly.

Mexican Cauliflower Fried Rice {Paleo, Whole30, Keto}

This Mexican Cauliflower Rice is packed with veggies, protein, and lots of flavor and spice!  It's topped with an easy guacamole and chipotle ranch sauce for a tasty, filling meal that's Paleo, Whole30 compliant and keto friendly.

Author: Michele
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Course: Dinner/Lunch
Cuisine: keto, Paleo, Whole30
Keyword: dinner, keto, paleo, whole30
Servings: 6 servings
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Ingredients

Easy Guac:

  • 1 large ripe avocado or 2 small, mashed
  • 2-3 Tbsp onion minced
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1-2 Tbsp jalapeno peppers minced
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
  • 2 Tbsp chopped fresh cilantro plus more for garnish

Instructions

  1. Prepare the chipotle ranch, cover and chill until ready to serve.
  2. Heat a skillet over medium heat and add 1 Tbsp coconut oil.
  3. Add ground meat to skillet and sprinkle with salt and spices. Once browned, add onion, pepper and stir, cook about 45 seconds until softened.
  4. Add chopped green chilis, garlic, and jalapeno pepper and continue to cook another 45 seconds to heat through. Add cauli rice and stir to coat, then cover skillet for 30 seconds to soften cauliflower, remove from heat.
  5. Before serving, mash together all the guac ingredients in a bowl. To serve fried rice, top with extra cilantro, chipotle ranch and guac. Enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 335kcal
Carbohydrates: 9g
Protein: 15g
Fat: 27g
Saturated Fat: 12g
Cholesterol: 53mg
Sodium: 273mg
Potassium: 604mg
Fiber: 4g
Sugar: 2g
Vitamin A: 855IU
Vitamin C: 63.8mg
Calcium: 36mg
Iron: 2.3mg

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About Michele

Michele Rosen is the author of Paleo baking at Home and the creator of Paleo Running Momma, a website dedicated to bringing you the most delicious paleo friendly meals and desserts. She’s a mom of 3 kids ages 17, 15 and 13, a paleo eater, runner and yogi.

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  4. Maggie says

    This was so good! Really great flavors and super easy to make!

    I’ m not sure if this an error in the recipe or not, but you call for 3 tbsp of cooking fat but I only saw 1 tbsp used in the recipe.

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  8. Ashley Bookout says

    5 stars
    great recipe! I made it to take for lunch for a few days and it reheated well. Do not even miss rice!

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  10. Perlamonty says

    5 stars
    This was fantastic! I used ground turkey and layered it with lettuce, black beans, this cauliflower rice, guacamole. Will definitely make this again. Would be good in a wrap as well

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