Description
Afraid of rice so you use Minute® rice? Try this Puerto Rican style rice passed on from my family and you will never go back! No more boxed rice!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ cup sofrito
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 (1.41 ounce) package sazon seasoning with achiote
- ½ tablespoon adobo seasoning
- 2 cups medium-grain white rice
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 (15 ounce) can gandules (pigeon peas), drained and rinsed
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
Instructions
- 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.
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 8