Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans
Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, puerto rican rice & pink beans. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

The holy grail of Puerto Rican cuisine: Puerto Rican Rice. Every cook has their own special recipe for Puerto Rican Rice that seems to define them as a chef. This is my mom's recipe and we devour it as a meal unto itself.

Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have puerto rican rice & pink beans using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans:
  1. Prepare 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  2. Take 4 oz ham (diced)
  3. Get 1/4 bunch cilantro (finely chopped)
  4. Get 1/4 cup sofrito (I use homemade! Goya sells it in the latin food section. They also have it in the freeze section. I think the frozen one is better to use if not using homemade)
  5. Prepare 10 pimiento stuffed olives
  6. Prepare 8 oz can tomato sauce (Goya)
  7. Get 1 envelope sazón culantro y achiote (Goya)
  8. Make ready 1 envelope beef bouillon (Goya)
  9. Get 2 15.5 ounce cans pink beans (Goya) (DO NOT DRAIN)
  10. Get 16 oz water
  11. Get 2 medium potatoes peeled and cubed
  12. Make ready 1 adobo to taste (Goya)

This is a family recipe from my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. They taught me how to make it when the twins were little and now it is a regular item on our meal plan. My husband and kids beg for it. In the Puerto Rican culture it is called Gandules and Rice.

Steps to make Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans:
  1. Add oil, ham, cilantro, sofrito to deep saucepan and saute on medium-low heat for about 3 minutes.
  2. Add olives, tomato sauce, sazón, beef bouillon and stir 2-3 minutes.
  3. Add beans, water, potatoes, and adobo, stir.
  4. Turn heat to medium-high bring to boil. Stir occasionally.
  5. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook about 20 minutes. Remove lid stir and cook another 10 minutes or until potatoes are done without lid.
  6. Serve with white rice.

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