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

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, puerto rican rice & pink beans. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The holy grail of Puerto Rican cuisine: Puerto Rican Rice. Every cook has their own special recipe for Puerto Rican Rice that seems to define them as a chef. This is my mom's recipe and we devour it as.

Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans:
  1. Prepare 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  2. Take 4 oz ham (diced)
  3. Prepare 1/4 bunch cilantro (finely chopped)
  4. Take 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. Prepare 8 oz can tomato sauce (Goya)
  7. Take 1 envelope sazón culantro y achiote (Goya)
  8. Prepare 1 envelope beef bouillon (Goya)
  9. Take 2 15.5 ounce cans pink beans (Goya) (DO NOT DRAIN)
  10. Take 16 oz water
  11. Prepare 2 medium potatoes peeled and cubed
  12. Get 1 adobo to taste (Goya)

Although every Puerto Rican home has their own way of making "Arroz y Habichuelas" we all still at the very least use the same basic ingredients for this iconic Puerto Rican rice dish. Mama's Puerto Rican Chicken and Rice also known as Arroz con Pollo. This one pan dinner is made with homemade adobo seasoned chicken, sofrito and savory rice. This is a family recipe from my mot.

Steps 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.

Quick and easy Puerto Rican rice and beans recipe is my favorite Latin American meal. It's loaded with mouthwatering pinto beans and rice with ham and potatoes in every bite! People have asked me: "What makes this recipe Puerto Rican?" Follow your rice cooker instructions for the amount of rice you wish to make. Add a little oil and salt before starting the cooking cycle. There's nothing more quintessentially Puerto Rican than arroz con gandules.

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