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Arroz con Gandules Recipe

Arroz con Gandules Recipe

Arroz con Gandules Recipe - How to Make Puerto Rican Arroz con Gandules in a Rice Cooker (Rice with Pigeon Peas Recipe)

Course Dinner, Entree, Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine Caribbean, Latin, Puerto Rican
Keyword caribbean cuisine, caribbean food, caribbean recipes, easy recipes, latin cuisine, latin food, latin recipes, puerto rican cuisine, puerto rican food, puerto rican recipes, quick recipes, rice cooker recipes, rice recipes, simple recipes, yellow rice recipes
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Author Melanie Edwards

Ingredients

  • abt 1 handful per person white rice uncooked
  • water
  • cooking oil vegetable
  • 1 packet sazón
  • 2 Tbsp tomato sauce
  • 1 Tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 Tbsp sofrito (or recaito)
  • 5-6 olives (Spanish salad olives with pimientos)
  • 1 can gandules (pigeon peas) drained & rinsed
  • salt to taste
  • adobo to taste

Instructions

  1. Put rice into your rice cooker’s pot and clean the rice. If you’re not familiar with how to clean rice, it just means that you run it under water a couple of times and pick out the dark grains, pebbles, etc. To do this:

  2. Fill pot with water and press rice with your hands. Pick out anything that’s not a rice grain. Pour out water, being careful not to lose any of the rice. Repeat a few times until water pours out clear.

  3. Add water to the pot until the water sits just above the rice. (I’ve heard that normally it is a 2-1 ratio: for every cup of rice, you add 2 cups of water. I’ve never cooked it this way, as I find it turns out to be too much water, making the rice too mushy.)

  4. Add a serving-spoon’s worth of cooking oil. Not a tablespoon, but the bigger spoon one uses to stir a pot. (Should turn out to be close to 3 Tbsp of oil.)

  5. Add remaining ingredients.

  6. Stir.

  7. Taste the water. If you feel it needs more seasoning, you can add a little of either salt or Adobo to your liking.

  8. Cover and set the rice cooker to cook.

Recipe Notes

To see pictures and links for these ingredients, see 5 Must-Have Ingredients for Cooking Puerto Rican Food

There will be no need to stir the rice while it cooks, though you certainly can do so once about mid-way through. Your arroz con gandules should be done in about 30 minutes or so. You will know it’s done when you taste the rice and it’s neither mushy nor tough.