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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have arroz con gandules (puerto rican rice and peas) using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Arroz con gandules (Puerto Rican rice and peas):
- Get 2 tbsp sofrito
- Get 1 tbsp adobo
- Prepare 1 tbsp garlic powder
- Take 1/2 can tomato sauce
- Take 1 envelope sazon
- Get 2 envelope goya pork boullion
- Take 1 tbsp oil
- Get 1 can gandules (pigeon peas) with liquid
- Prepare 2 gandules can of water
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup rice
One should NEVER use sazon flavor packets, as they mostly contain MSG and other chemicals including artificial colors. If you've tasted Puerto Rican rice before, I guarantee it didn't turn out perfectly amazing the first time they tried making it either. Arroz con gandules - Puerto Rican Rice with Pigeon Peas. Seriously the best rice you've ever had!
Instructions to make Arroz con gandules (Puerto Rican rice and peas):
- Please measure your rice to water according to directions on rice bag. I never measure, I just go by what I see. Usually my water is about 1/2 inch above the rice in the pot
- In a medium sized aluminum rice pot, heat oil and sofrito on medium high heat until oil turns green, stirring constantly
- Add adobo, garlic powder, sazon, pork flavor, tomato sauce, water and pigeon peas and bring to a boil
- Wash rice and add to pot stirring occasionally (so that the rice doesn't stick)
- Lower heat once rice seems to have just a coat of liquid on top, cover and let cook for about 20 minutes. Do not stir too many times once heat is lowered as it will make your rice mushy.
- Rice is done when rice grains are open.
- Note: you can also use corn, Vienna sausages, red beans, chorizo, chicken, cut ham or just plain yellow rice instead of using gandules. This is the typical recipe for Puerto Rican rice. I also add pimiento sometimes.
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. This dish is mainly served during Christmas season or for special occasions. The sofrito is the most important part of seasoning the rice. This easy recipe for Puerto Rican-style rice with pigeon peas serves eight and is ready in less than an hour.
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