Puerto Rican Rice And Beans Pink Beans Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oil in saucepan on medium. Add ham and sauté for about 5 minutes.
• Add Sofrito, Recaito and garlic and sauté another 5 minutes.
• Stir in remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until potatoes are tender and beans are desired thickness.
• Serve over hot rice.
• Tip: We eat this with a slice or two of avocado, which is traditionally how rice and beans are served in Puerto Rico.

Steps:

• Made by Goya brand and can be found in the Spanish/Latin section of your grocery store Cook white rice as instructions on package of rice say to (5 minute rice is perfectly fine).
• make sure when you are done cooking to let excess water out of rice.
• In saucepan, heat oil on low-medium heat and put in the ham, salted pork, or Canadian bacon.
• once it starts to sizzle, add the garlic powder and Adobo seasoning.
• Then add the Sofrito and Sazon con Azafran seasoning, stir.
• Next add red beans (drain most of liquid, just a little bit is needed to pull the sauce together).
• Mix and serve.
• (in Puerto Rico, it is traditional to serve rice and beans with almost every meal, but mainly with pork chops (cooked with a little sofrito and adobo seasoning) on the side).
• Enjoy (a wonderful recipe straight from the island).

Steps:

• Heat a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Add pork and saute until browned, about 7 minutes. Stir in garlic and heat until fragrant. Add gandules, recaito, sazon seasoning, and olives. Reduce heat and simmer for about 10 minutes.
• Add rice to the pot and stir to coat. Add 1 1/2 cans' worth of water; bring to a boil and cover. Simmer until rice has absorbed most of the liquid and formed a "crust" on the bottom, 20 to 30 minutes. Stir mixture near the top, avoiding the crust, after 20 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil over medium heat in a medium-sized caldero or nonstick pan. Stir in sofrito, garlic, sazon, and adobo; cook for 4 minutes, making sure not to burn garlic. Stir in rice until coated well; pour in chicken broth and water and stir once more.
• Bring mixture to a boil and cook over medium-high heat until all liquid has been absorbed and rice looks like it has little holes throughout, 20 to 25 minutes. Reduce heat to low. Stir in peas and cilantro gently from bottom to top, once or twice only. Cover and let sit for 10 minutes.
• Turn off heat and let rice sit, uncovered, for 10 minutes more.

Steps:

• 1. First cut in cubes the smoke ham.
• 2. Put aside chopped onion, red and green pepper, also mince garlic.
• 3. In a cast iron pot about 4 quarts, put oil when hot put in ham let cook for 3 minutes then add onions, peppers and garlic. Also chop cilantro and put in pot to cook at medium heat.
• 4. When tender add tomato sauce ,the sazon seasoning and adobo, pimento olive and the 2 cans of pink beans or small red beans stir put in the rice and chicken bouillon and chicken stock, make sure it does not have too much liquid.
• 5. Cook in low heat cover tight or put aluminum first and cover and let cook for 30 minutes. When liquid is absorbed take large spoon for moving rice around and do it a few times.
• 6. Then cover and cook for another 30 minutes. You will be smelling the aroma of your rice. Uncover and stir again and taste the rice to see if grain is fully cooked. If so cover shut the stove and now you are ready to enjoy your delicious Puerto Rican rice and beans. You could make pork chops or chicken and salad on the side. You won't regret doing this dish, bon appetite. Serves 8 or more depending on how you serve.
• 7. This dish goes good with my flan as a dessert. Whatever you serve it with - enjoy my authentic Puerto Rican rice and beans!