Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, rice and gandules. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gandules (aka pigeon peas) are an exotic ingredient to most folks outside of the Caribbean. Parboiled rice is my favorite for this recipe because it's almost impossible to end up with mushy rice. My personal favorite dish is Puerto Rice and Beans, but no meal is complete without arroz con gandules.
Rice and gandules is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Rice and gandules is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook rice and gandules using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Rice and gandules:
- Get 4 cubes red homade sofrito cubes
- Prepare 1 rice spoon full of oil
- Get 3 packets sazon
- Make ready 2 packets jamon (pork bullion)
- Get Half packet of chicken bullion
- Prepare 1 can gandules
- Take 2 empty dry veggie cans of rice
- Prepare 4 dry empty veggie cans of water
- Get 1 cup diced ham (optional)
After all, rice and pigeon peas is the classic holiday meal. Arroz con Gandules is the best Puerto Rican rice dish that is filled with FLAVOR. Gandules, which is pigeon peas in English; is essential to the rice dish and is packed with nutrients. A traditional Puerto Rican dish, arroz con gandules is rice cooked with green pigeon peas..
Steps to make Rice and gandules:
- First put one rice spoon full of oil in a pot preferably a dutch oven pot.
- Throw in cubed ham pieces once oil is hot let it fry a minute slowly add the three cubes of sofrito along with all packets of bullions and sazon stir and slowly add the gandules stir and let cook about 2 to 3 minutes
- Then add the 4 cups of water still while stirring. Next let this boil about 4 mins
- Add two cans of rice stir the rice with your mix and stir additional 1 minute and let it boil for about 6 to 7 minutes
- Lower your flame cover and let cook for about 25 minutes
- Remove from heat dump pot of rice and gandules in a pan or dish with out disturbing burnt layer of bottom rice that will be left behind
- Mix the rice and gandules and serve!
- Put pot in sink with water and soap to remove burnt bottom rice dont scrap it out about an hour of soaking removes it all!!
Gandules (translation: Rice with Pigeon Peas) is a popular and traditional Puerto Rican rice dish. The complete Arroz con Gandules recipe is at the bottom of this post (Jump to Recipe), but first, here. After all, rice with pigeon peas is one of Puerto Rico's national dishes. This recipe is seasoned with Arroz con gandules can be served alone or with a variety of sides like Pollo guisado (chicken stew). This satisfying rice dish is great served alongside roast pork or pasteles.
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