Arroz con Guandulas
Arroz con Guandulas

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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 make Arroz con Gandules for celebrations all year round.

Arroz con Guandulas is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Arroz con Guandulas is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have arroz con guandulas using 9 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Arroz con Guandulas:
  1. Prepare 2 cup rice
  2. Prepare 4 cup hot water
  3. Prepare 1/2 cup sofrito
  4. Take 16 oz can guandulas
  5. Get 2 tbsp alcaparrado ( cappers&olives mix)
  6. Make ready 1 packet sazon with achiote
  7. Get 1 can tomatoe sause
  8. Prepare 4 tbsp oil
  9. Prepare 1 garlic powder

A traditional Puerto Rican dish, arroz con gandules is rice cooked with green pigeon peas. This orange-hued dish is full of flavor from the herby, peppery sofrito and pairs nicely with stewed chicken, pork, or red beans. Don't worry if the bottom layer burns a bit as you finish cooking the rice–this crispy layer is called pegao and is one of the best parts of the dish! Arroz con Gandules is a popular Puerto Rican rice dish with different variations, although, the most basic ingredient of it is a sofrito sauce, added with pork (this time, I used bacon) and gandules.

Steps to make Arroz con Guandulas:
  1. In medium size caldero add oil, tomato sauce, alcaparrado,sofrito, and sazon.. Cook over medium heat 4 minutes. add all other ingredients and enough water to cover the rice 1 inch above the rice line. Add salt, sazon, and stir to taste.
  2. Bring to boil,then simmer to almost absorbed. Stir gently from bottom to top once or twice. Then continue simmer 10-15 minutes

Gandules or Pigeon Peas in English is an essential ingredient in making Arroz con Gnadules. I am in full on Christmas mode! I just so excited to be going home to P. Because I am so pumped for Christmas I'm going to be sharing some of my favorite Christmas foods. Yesterday I told you all about a creamy coconut rice pudding called arroz con dulce.

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