Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, arroz con gandules / rice w pigeon peas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Arroz con Gandules / Rice w Pigeon Peas is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Arroz con Gandules / Rice w Pigeon Peas is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have arroz con gandules / rice w pigeon peas using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Arroz con Gandules / Rice w Pigeon Peas:

1. Get 1/4 cup chopped Chorizo or Spicy Sausage (Salchichón)
2. Prepare 1 can (15 oz.) Gandules (Pigeon Peas)
3. Take 1 clove minced Garlic
4. Make ready 1/2 cup chopped Red Onion
5. Make ready 1/4 cup chopped Green Peppers
6. Get 1/4 cup Roasted Red Peppers
7. Make ready 1 packages Chicken Bullion
8. Make ready 1 packages Sazon with Culantro and Achiote
9. Get 2 tbsp of Sofrito
10. Take 1 tbsp Adobo Goya
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp dried Oregano
12. Prepare 2 tbsp sliced Pimento stuffed Green Olives
13. Prepare 4 oz Tomato Sauce
14. Get 1 bunch Fresh Cilantro
15. Get 1 Salt and Pepper to taste
16. Take 2 cup White Rice (uncooked)
17. Make ready 2 1/2 cup Water
18. Prepare 2 tbsp of Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Sazon seasoning & tomato paste gives the rice its. Arroz con Gandules — also known as Puerto Rican Rice with Pigeon Peas — is Puerto Rico's national dish for a reason! It's a flavorful Puerto Rican rice dish made with gandules (pigeon peas), green olives and sofrito. Treat your friends and family to this famous rice tonight!

Steps to make Arroz con Gandules / Rice w Pigeon Peas:

1. In a medium pot, on medium heat, add oil, sofrito, garlic, onions, green peppers, red peppers and chorizo. Cook until onions are translucent.
2. Add tomato sauce, can of gandules (with liquid), green olives, adobo, chicken bullion, sazon and dried oregano. Stir thoroughly and cook covered for about 3 minutes.
3. Add rice, water, cilantro and salt and pepper to taste. LEAVE UNCOVERED on medium heat until water is almost completely dissolved.
4. As soon as water is almost dissolved, stir twice scooping from the bottom up and over. Cover and lower heat to low and cook for about 20 minutes. DO NOT UNCOVER LID. After 20 minutes, stir the rice. It should be fluffly and golden. If not, cover for 10 more minutes and voila!
5. Buen Provecho :-)

It's a flavorful Puerto Rican rice dish made with gandules (pigeon peas), green olives and sofrito. Treat your friends and family to this famous rice tonight! Arroz con Gandules (Pigeon Peas Rice) is one of those dishes that is a crowd favorite and is always present at a Hispanic's home table during the holidays. Pigeon peas and rice is a staple in Dominican and Puerto Rican cooking. It is really one of those dishes constantly being served in a Hispanic home.

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