Best 19 Arroz Con Gandules Recipes

PUERTO RICAN RICE AND BEANS (ARROZ CON GANDULES)

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.

ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• Rinse the rice with cold water, drain and set aside.
• Heat the oil and sofrito in a 6-quart Dutch oven or caldero over medium-high heat, 2 minutes. Stir in the gandules with liquid, tomato sauce, olives, sazón, adobo and black pepper to taste then bring to a simmer. Stir in the rice, add 2 cups water and bring to a boil until the water begins to evaporate. Reduce the heat to low, cover and cook until the rice is tender, about 25 minutes. Remove from the heat and let sit for 20 minutes.
• Before serving, fluff the rice and add the cilantro.

ARROZ CON GANDULES (RICE AND PIGEON PEAS)-A PUERTO RICAN FAV

Steps:

• Pour olive oil in a cast iron/aluminum pot until hot.
• Bring the temp up to med-high and pour in water, bullion, tomato sauce, sofrito, adobo, and sazon until it comes to a boil.
• Pour in pigeon peas (gandules) and let boil for a minute.
• Pour in rice.
• Stir ONCE and put the lid on it, sealing tightly.
• Let sit for 20 minutes on low-medium.
• If the rice looks gummy DO NOT STIR IT, just put the lid back on and wait until the rice is firm (ready).
• If you desire the crunchiness on the bottom, once the rice is done cooking, put the temp on very low temp and let it sit for about 5 minutes. The bottom will loosen up from the moisture (since it it's done cooking).

ARROZ CON GANDULES (YELLOW RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS)

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat oil and salt pork over medium-high heat. Add sofrito and cook 1 minute. Add tomato paste and mix well, cook for 2 minutes. Add rice and cook 2 minutes being careful not to scorch the rice, turning all the time. Add saffron and gandules and stir constantly. Add liquid, stirring constantly. Add salt and pepper to taste and bring everything to a boil. Lower heat and simmer covered for 15 minutes. Do not disturb. After 15 minutes, check the rice. Stir. Recover. Turn off heat and let steam for 5 minutes more. Serve immediately with pernil asado or alone. The rice should be fluffy and separate. The color should be golden.
• Mix together all ingredients and set aside to let flavors meld together.

PIGEON PEA RICE: ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• Place a 3-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add the oil and bacon. Fry, stirring, until the bacon is crisp. Add the onion and cilantro. Continue to cook for 5 minutes until the onion is soft. Add the rice, tomatoes, oregano, cumin, salt, achiote, and pigeon peas. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes until the rice is opaque. Stir in the tomato paste and water and bring to boil. When all the water is absorbed, cover tightly and reduce the heat to low. Cook for 25 to 30 minutes until tender. Serve on a decorative platter and garnish with cilantro.

ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• Heat corn oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add ham, onion, and green bell pepper; cook and stir until onion and green bell pepper are soft, about 5 minutes. Stir in gandules, tomato sauce, sofrito, adobo seasoning, olive brine, green olives, and sazon seasoning until warmed through.
• Pour water and rice into the pot; bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Cook, stirring frequently to prevent rice from sticking, until water is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Reduce heat to low and cover; cook until rice is tender, about 30 minutes. Remove lid and stir rice; cover and cook until rice is very soft, about 30 minutes more.

ARROZ CON GANDULES (RICE AND PIGEON PEAS)

Steps:

• Soak pigeon peas overnight in 6 cups of water; drain and discard water.
• In a large, covered pot, combine peas with 4 cups water and bring to a boil over high heat; cover, reduce heat to medium, and cook 30 minutes.
• Season with salt and cook 15 minutes more; drain, reserving 3 cups of the cooking liquid (you may need to add more water to end up with the 3 cups).
• Meanwhile, in a Dutch oven, lightly brown the bacon and ham; add in the remaining sofrito ingredients and saute, over low heat until all the ingredients are tender and the tomatoes break down.
• Stir in the additional ingredients and combine well; stir in the peas and rice.
• Add the 3 cups of reserved cooking liquid and let cook, uncovered, until almost dry (it will look like little volcanos are erupting); stir up the rice from the bottom.
• Cover and turn the heat down to the lowest setting and let cook 30 minutes, turning the rice, from the bottom, once halfway through cooking.
• NOTE: This is how the dish is supposed to be cooked. I prefer to add the olives after the last turning of the rice for a "cleaner" flavor.

EASY RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS/ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• *Rinse the rice in a bowl with warm water.
• *In a large pot, add water and all items except rice.
• *Bring to boil, and let it boil for about 3 minutes. (I usually taste it and add more seasoning to taste if needed).
• *Add rice and let it continue to boil for about 2 minutes.
• *Turn heat to low, and place tight fitting lid over pot.
• *Check periodically, cook until liquid is absorbed. Stir once, remove from heat, replace lid and let it stand for about 5 minutes.
• This usually serves our household of seven.

BROWN RICE AND PIGEON PEAS (ARROZ CON GANDULES)

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large, deep skillet. Add the bacon and onion and cook three minutes. Add the garlic and cook two minutes longer.
• Stir in all remaining ingredients except rice. Bring to a boil.
• Stir in rice, cover, and reduce heat to a simmer. Simmer until rice is tender (about 40-45 minutes if you're using brown rice, 25-30 minutes if you use white rice.

ARROZ CON GANDULES Y LECHE DE COCO

Steps:

• In a large pot add sazon, oil, sofrito, onion powder, garlic powder, adobo, ham, gandules, coconut milk, and tomato sauce. Simmer over medium fire. Stir ingredients together and let heat up for about 3 minutes. Add water continue to mix all ingredients together.Add salt to taste. Let it simmer until it comes to a boil. When water is boiling add rice. Stir in the rice so it all evens out with taste. Cover the pot. When you see all the water has dried stir rice so it all cooks evenly. Covering the the rice allows it to cook but also helps to keep it nice and moist not dry and hard. (if rice seems a bit hard just sprinkle a bit a water on top and cover) at times this will happen if it's your first time making rice.

RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS - ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• 1. Heat olive oil in a 6-quart pot. Saute the sofrito and chopped ham for 1 minute.
• 2.Add the rice, water, sazon and pigeon peas.
• 3.Bring to a boil. Let boil for 2 to 3 minutes.
• 4.Cover, reduce heat to medium low, and cook for 35 to 40 minutes.
• TIP: Do not use a lid with a vent that allows the steam to escape.
• Never lift the lid while cooking.
• 5.When finished cooking, stir the rice before serving. It should be light and fluffy.

SPANISH RICE AND PIGEON PEAS ( ARROZ CON GANDULES)

Steps:

• In a big pot heat up 2 tbsps oil on a low flame and put in the Sofrito and all the other ingredients except rice and water.
• Stir fry for 3 minutes.
• Then put the rice in and stir well.
• Next add the water, leave the pot uncovered, cook over medium heat and let the rice dry out.
• As soon as the rice is dry, turn the rice over,in the pot, put the cover back on and put on low flame for 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes turn rice over again and serve.

MEATY ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• Heat a large pot over medium heat.
• Add bacon(ham), onions, green pepper and cook for 3 minutes.
• Add garlic and cook for 2 minutes longer.
• Add remaining ingredient, except rice and bring to a boil.
• Stir in rice; cover.
• Simmer for 2 minutes or until rice is tender.

ARROZ CON GANDULES (RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS)

Steps:

• In a large pot with a lid gently brown ham steak in oil.
• Add sofrito, sazon, boullion cube, olives and undrained pigeon peas.
• Simmer gently to mix flavors.
• Stir in rice and water. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to medium-high.
• Boil until no visible liquid remains, stirring often to prevent sticking.
• Heap rice and bean mixture into a mound in the center of the pot. Cover with lid and reduce heat to medium-low.
• Stir and check rice for doneness every 5 minutes or so. A crisp rice crust will form on the bottom if the mix is not stirred often. This will add a bit of crunch to the dish but I have found all the men in my family love the crust!
• When rice is tender, stir once again to fluff mixture.
• Serve with sliced of avocado and garnish with additional green olives.

ARROZ CON GANDULES (RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS)

Steps:

• For the gandules, soak the raw gandules in 1 quart of water with 2 teaspoons of salt for about 15 minutes. Rinse them and cooking 4 cups of water until they have softened. If you can squeeze them between two fingers, they are ready. If you prefer a quicker method, use the canned gandules. For the sofrito, put cilantro in work bowl of food processor and pulse twice. Add onion and garlic and pulse until the onion is in small pieces. Add ajies and chop fine. The mixture will be coarse. Heat olive oil in a 3 to 4-quart "caldero" (pot) over medium heat. Add sofrito to the hot oil and saute for a few seconds. Sprinkle black pepper and oregano, and saute until onion is translucent and not brown. Mix in tomato sauce. Stir in rice until well blended. Add alcaparrado with liquid. Stir in gandules with their liquid. Stir in hot water and sea salt. Raise heat high enough to make mixture boil, then lower to medium heat. Cook uncovered until most of the water has evaporated. Stir the mixture, cover the pot and cook for 15 minutes. (Put a spoon in the center of the rice; if the spoon stays upright, your rice is on its way!) Stir the rice once more and continue to cook until tender.

VEGAN ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• *****Notes: In some cases, the rice is not perfect after cooking. If rice is too wet but soft, continue cooking in 4 minute intervals until perfect. If rice is hard, add some tablespoons of broth and continue cooking in 4 minute intervals. If texture resembles mashed potatoes, throw out and start over.
• In a larger saute pan with lid, add equal parts of butter and olive oil to saute vegetables. Turn stove to medium heat. Dice onion, garlic, and seed and dice red bell pepper. Saute bell pepper and onion for about 3 minutes. Add garlic, saute for another 40 seconds. Add 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Stir to combine.
• Add 1 cup of rice with the vegetables, mix to combine and coat the rice with oil and butter mixture. Saute shy of 1 minute.
• Add two cups of vegetable broth and the other cup of rice. Drain gandules and capers, add to rice and broth. Add bouillon cube, Sazon Con Azafran, 1 teaspoon of sea salt, and capers. Add last cup of broth and stir to combine extremely thoroughly for even cooking of the color and flavor. Add one tablespoon of oil, less if mixture is already oily. Stir. Turn on high heat and bring to a boil. Allow rice to boil uncovered on high heat until most of the liquid above the rice is absorbed (but rice is not completely done or dry). This should take about 10 minutes. Next, cover lid and turn heat to low. Cook for 20 minutes. Fluff with fork, turn heat off, cover and let sit for at least 10 minutes. Serve hot.

ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• In a large pot, brown sauage in olive oil with Adobo.
• Add all remaining ingredients except rice; bring to a boil.
• Stir in rice and cook uncovered until a metal spoon rested on top slowly fills without sinking (technical instructions I know, but this is how it was taught to me.
• Stir rice and cover; lower heat and simmer 20 minutes.
• Stir, recover and cook additional 15 minutes.

ARROZ CON GANDULES (RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS)

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook Sofrito in oil over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Add rice and sazon; cook and stir until rice is lightly toasted, 3-4 minutes. Add all remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until rice is tender, 15-20 minutes. Fluff with a fork.

EASY ARROZ CON GANDULES

Steps:

• Place green peppers, onion, garlic and cilantro in a blender or food processor, puree. This mixture is called soffrito, it is your seasoning base. It can be stored in an airtight container and refrigerated for up to 2 weeks or frozen for up to 6 months.
• Place 3 tablespoons olive oil and 6 tablespoons soffrito in an 8 quart saucepan. Cook for 3 or 4 minutes to release oils.
• Pour one can of tomato sauce and the Spanish seasoning packet into the saucepan, mix well. Add 3 cups rice to the mixture and stir until the rice is coated.
• Stir pigeon peas into the mixture and add boiling water. Cover the pot with aluminum foil and a pot lid. Reduce heat to simmer and cook 45 minutes or until rice is tender.