Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans
Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, puerto rican rice & pink beans. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Puerto Rican Rice You haven't had rice that blows you away until you try Puerto Rican Rice (Arroz con Gandules)! This rice with pigeon peas is a must-have with every meal, party or BBQ! Puerto Rican Rice Recipe Puerto Rican rice is a yellow rice recipe where the rice is cooked in a sauce mixture called sofrito and takes on a yellow coloring through the spices in either Sazon seasoning, turmeric, or through using annato oil. Add the onion and sauté for five minutes, until softened.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have puerto rican rice & pink beans using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans:
  1. Make ready 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  2. Prepare 4 oz ham (diced)
  3. Get 1/4 bunch cilantro (finely chopped)
  4. Get 1/4 cup sofrito (I use homemade! Goya sells it in the latin food section. They also have it in the freeze section. I think the frozen one is better to use if not using homemade)
  5. Take 10 pimiento stuffed olives
  6. Take 8 oz can tomato sauce (Goya)
  7. Prepare 1 envelope sazón culantro y achiote (Goya)
  8. Prepare 1 envelope beef bouillon (Goya)
  9. Make ready 2 15.5 ounce cans pink beans (Goya) (DO NOT DRAIN)
  10. Prepare 16 oz water
  11. Take 2 medium potatoes peeled and cubed
  12. Prepare 1 adobo to taste (Goya)

I get them at Target and Kroger all the time. After all, rice with pigeon peas is one of Puerto Rico's national dishes. The recipe is seasoned with sofrito, a blend of herbs and spices popular in Latin Caribbean (and some Latin American) cuisine, and is studded with diced ham and pigeon peas. This recipe for hearty One Pot Puerto Rican Rice is easy to make in the oven, on the stove, with a rice cooker, or in an Instant Pot.

Instructions to make Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans:
  1. Add oil, ham, cilantro, sofrito to deep saucepan and saute on medium-low heat for about 3 minutes.
  2. Add olives, tomato sauce, sazón, beef bouillon and stir 2-3 minutes.
  3. Add beans, water, potatoes, and adobo, stir.
  4. Turn heat to medium-high bring to boil. Stir occasionally.
  5. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook about 20 minutes. Remove lid stir and cook another 10 minutes or until potatoes are done without lid.
  6. Serve with white rice.

The recipe is seasoned with sofrito, a blend of herbs and spices popular in Latin Caribbean (and some Latin American) cuisine, and is studded with diced ham and pigeon peas. This recipe for hearty One Pot Puerto Rican Rice is easy to make in the oven, on the stove, with a rice cooker, or in an Instant Pot. This Puerto Rican-style rice and bean dish is made with a mixture of chicken broth, pigeon peas, sofrito, and seasonings for ultimate flavor. There's nothing more quintessentially Puerto Rican than arroz con gandules. It's part of our national dish (along with Pernil).

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