Recipe: Delicious Rice and gandules

Rice and gandules. My personal favorite dish is Puerto Rice and Beans, but no meal is complete without arroz con gandules. Not to mention being dotted with gandules (pigeon peas) and alcaparrado (a salty. Gandules (aka pigeon peas) are an exotic ingredient to most folks outside of the Caribbean.

Learn how to make Puerto Rican arroz con gandules recipe in a rice cooker! Add uncooked rice and water to pork mixture; stir well. Raise temperature to high, cover saucepan and bring all to a boil. You can cook Rice and gandules using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Rice and gandules

1. You need 4 cubes of red homade sofrito cubes.
2. You need 1 of rice spoon full of oil.
3. Prepare 3 packets of sazon.
4. You need 2 packets of jamon (pork bullion).
5. You need Half of packet of chicken bullion.
6. Prepare 1 can of gandules.
7. You need 2 of empty dry veggie cans of rice.
8. Prepare 4 of dry empty veggie cans of water.
9. Prepare 1 cup of diced ham (optional).

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. Learn how to make Puerto Rican arroz con gandules recipe in a rice cooker! This traditional Puerto Rican food, rice with pigeon peas takes a modern twist.

Rice and gandules step by step

1. First put one rice spoon full of oil in a pot preferably a dutch oven pot..
2. 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.
3. Then add the 4 cups of water still while stirring. Next let this boil about 4 mins.
4. 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.
5. Lower your flame cover and let cook for about 25 minutes.
6. 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.
7. Mix the rice and gandules and serve!.
8. 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!!.

Cover and reduce heat to medium. This satisfying rice dish is great served alongside roast pork or pasteles. 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. After all, rice with pigeon peas is one of Puerto Rico's national dishes.

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