Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, rice and gandules. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Rice and gandules is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Rice and gandules is something that I have loved my whole life.

My personal favorite dish is Puerto Rice and Beans, but no meal is complete without arroz con gandules. Not to mention being dotted with gandules (pigeon peas) and alcaparrado (a salty. Gandules (aka pigeon peas) are an exotic ingredient to most folks outside of the Caribbean.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook rice and gandules using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Rice and gandules:

1. Make ready 4 cubes red homade sofrito cubes
2. Make ready 1 rice spoon full of oil
3. Take 3 packets sazon
4. Make ready 2 packets jamon (pork bullion)
5. Get Half packet of chicken bullion
6. Get 1 can gandules
7. Take 2 empty dry veggie cans of rice
8. Prepare 4 dry empty veggie cans of water
9. Get 1 cup diced ham (optional)

Arroz Con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas) is a Puerto Rican dish popular in the Carribean. The pigeon peas are loaded with fiber which makes this a healthy side if cooked right. Learn how to make Puerto Rican arroz con gandules recipe in a rice cooker! This traditional Puerto Rican food, rice with pigeon peas takes a modern twist.

Instructions to make Rice and gandules:

1. First put one rice spoon full of oil in a pot preferably a dutch oven pot.
2. Throw in cubed ham pieces once oil is hot let it fry a minute slowly add the three cubes of sofrito along with all packets of bullions and sazon stir and slowly add the gandules stir and let cook about 2 to 3 minutes
3. Then add the 4 cups of water still while stirring. Next let this boil about 4 mins
4. Add two cans of rice stir the rice with your mix and stir additional 1 minute and let it boil for about 6 to 7 minutes
5. Lower your flame cover and let cook for about 25 minutes
6. Remove from heat dump pot of rice and gandules in a pan or dish with out disturbing burnt layer of bottom rice that will be left behind
7. Mix the rice and gandules and serve!
8. Put pot in sink with water and soap to remove burnt bottom rice dont scrap it out about an hour of soaking removes it all!!

Cover and reduce heat to medium. This satisfying rice dish is great served alongside roast pork or pasteles. 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. After all, rice with pigeon peas is one of Puerto Rico's national dishes.

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