Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, arroz con gandules / rice and pigeon peas. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Arroz con gandules freezes very well, so make a big batch and portion it into storage bags for a quick weeknight side dish. To reheat, transfer into a microwave safe bowl Stir the rice to get it submerged and distribute the pigeon peas throughout. Cover and allow the rice to absorb all the visible liquid.
Arroz con Gandules / Rice and Pigeon Peas is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Arroz con Gandules / Rice and Pigeon Peas is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have arroz con gandules / rice and pigeon peas using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Arroz con Gandules / Rice and Pigeon Peas:
- Get 4 cup water
- Prepare 1 medium yellow onion diced
- Prepare 1/2 jar of olives with pimentos & juice
- Make ready 2 tbsp recaito
- Take 2 envelope sazon achiote
- Take 1 tsp fresh cilantro
- Make ready 2 cup long grain rice
- Make ready 15 oz can Gandules
- Get 4 clove garlic minced
- Make ready 1/2 cup sofrito
- Get 4 tbsp canola oil
- Take 1 tbsp dry oregeno
- Prepare 1 tsp adobo
- Prepare 1 salt
- Get 1 black pepper
- Prepare 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Take 1/2 oz pork, bacon, or ham chopped up
Arroz Con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas). More Latin style rice and beans recipes I love are Slow Cooker Pork and Gandules (Pigion Peas) Stew, Cuban style Arroz Congri (Black Beans), and Arroz con Pollo (Rice and Chicken) as well as a Cauliflower "Rice" and Chicken version. Arroz con gandules is a combination of rice, pigeon peas, and pork, cooked in the same pot with sofrito. This is Puerto Rico's national dish along with roasted pork.
Instructions to make Arroz con Gandules / Rice and Pigeon Peas:
- in a large 6 qt heavy pot add oil, cook pork,ham or bacon till brown
- add onions cook till tender, then add sofrito, recaito, tomato paste, rinsed rice, garlic, cilantro, olives & juice, sazon, salt, pepper, adobo, and rinsed pigeon peas, mix well then add 4 cups of water bring to a rolling boil, then reduce to medium low heat cover for about 20 mins or till rice is tender.
This dish is mainly served during Christmas season or for special occasions. The sofrito is the most important part of seasoning the rice. Pour in pigeon peas (gandules) and let boil for a minute. This is NOT an authentic recipe for Puerto Rican arroz con gandules or rice with pigeon peas. One should NEVER use sazon flavor packets, as they mostly contain MSG and other chemicals including artificial colors.
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