Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, rice and gandules. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Gandules (aka pigeon peas) are an exotic ingredient to most folks outside of the Caribbean. Pour Gandules into the rice continuing to stir until completely mixed in. My personal favorite dish is Puerto Rice and Beans, but no meal is complete without arroz con gandules. There's no such thing as party or cookout where someone doesn't bring a huge pot of rice.

Rice and gandules is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Rice and gandules is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Rice and gandules:

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

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. Arroz con Gandules Recipe: Puerto Rican Arroz con Gandules Rice Cooker. Learn how to make Puerto Rican arroz con gandules recipe in a rice cooker!

Steps 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!!

Arroz con Gandules Recipe: Puerto Rican Arroz con Gandules Rice Cooker. Learn how to make Puerto Rican arroz con gandules recipe in a rice cooker! A traditional Puerto Rican dish, arroz con gandules is rice cooked with green pigeon peas. After all, rice with pigeon peas is one of Puerto Rico's national dishes. Bring gandules to a boil; drain in colander and set aside.

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