Arroz con Gandules / Rice w Pigeon Peas
Arroz con Gandules / Rice w Pigeon Peas

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook arroz con gandules / rice w pigeon peas using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Arroz con Gandules / Rice w Pigeon Peas:
  1. Make ready 1/4 cup chopped Chorizo or Spicy Sausage (Salchichón)
  2. Take 1 can (15 oz.) Gandules (Pigeon Peas)
  3. Take 1 clove minced Garlic
  4. Take 1/2 cup chopped Red Onion
  5. Make ready 1/4 cup chopped Green Peppers
  6. Get 1/4 cup Roasted Red Peppers
  7. Prepare 1 packages Chicken Bullion
  8. Make ready 1 packages Sazon with Culantro and Achiote
  9. Take 2 tbsp of Sofrito
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp Adobo Goya
  11. Take 1/2 tsp dried Oregano
  12. Get 2 tbsp sliced Pimento stuffed Green Olives
  13. Get 4 oz Tomato Sauce
  14. Get 1 bunch Fresh Cilantro
  15. Prepare 1 Salt and Pepper to taste
  16. Get 2 cup White Rice (uncooked)
  17. Take 2 1/2 cup Water
  18. Prepare 2 tbsp of Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Arroz con Gandules is the meal everyone in the Caribbean enjoys for the holidays or other celebrations with family and friends. After all, rice and pigeon peas is the classic holiday meal. This Arroz con Gandules recipe only needs a few essential GOYA® pantry staples, so your family can. Pernil without arroz con gandules is like turkey without stuffing—the arroz completes any holiday meal in the Greater Antilles (especially Puerto Rico, Cuba Scatter pigeon peas over.

Steps to make Arroz con Gandules / Rice w Pigeon Peas:
  1. In a medium pot, on medium heat, add oil, sofrito, garlic, onions, green peppers, red peppers and chorizo. Cook until onions are translucent.
  2. Add tomato sauce, can of gandules (with liquid), green olives, adobo, chicken bullion, sazon and dried oregano. Stir thoroughly and cook covered for about 3 minutes.
  3. Add rice, water, cilantro and salt and pepper to taste. LEAVE UNCOVERED on medium heat until water is almost completely dissolved.
  4. As soon as water is almost dissolved, stir twice scooping from the bottom up and over. Cover and lower heat to low and cook for about 20 minutes. DO NOT UNCOVER LID. After 20 minutes, stir the rice. It should be fluffly and golden. If not, cover for 10 more minutes and voila!
  5. Buen Provecho :-)

Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low. Cover saucepan and simmer until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed. Arroz Con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas) is a Puerto Rican dish popular in the Carribean. The pigeon peas are loaded with fiber which makes this a healthy side if cooked right. Arroz Con Gandules is a traditional Puerto Rican dish.

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