Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, arroz con gandules. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Arroz con Gandules is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Arroz con Gandules is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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. Learn to Make Authentic Puerto Rican Arroz con Gandules.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook arroz con gandules using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Arroz con Gandules:

1. Take 2 cups white long grain rice
2. Make ready 1 can Goya gandules
3. Take 4 tbsp sofrito (Goya brand is fine if you don't want to make it)
4. Take 1/2 can Goya tomato sauce
5. Prepare 1 packet sazon con culantro y achiote
6. Take 1 packet Goya ham flavoring
7. Make ready 1 tsp cumin
8. Take 1 tsp oregano
9. Take 1 tsp salt
10. Get About a tbsp of oil
11. Prepare Water
12. Get Green olives (optional)

You can create arroz con gandules/ rice with pigeon peas using your instant pot or any other What I love about this Instant Pot Arroz con Gandules recipe is that it is an easy meal and when I'm busy all. Arroz con Gandules is a Puerto Rican favorite. It's also popular in other Latin American countries. Gandules or Guandu depending on where you are from, are a small roundish bean that grows in a.

Steps to make Arroz con Gandules:

1. Heat oil in a large pot (I use a caldero) on medium-high heat. Add sofrito and cook it for about a minute or two.
2. Add seasonings. The sazon, the ham flavoring, cumin, oregano and mix into the sofrito.
3. Add tomato sauce and stir.
4. Add can of beans (WITH liquid) and stir.
5. Add as many green olives as you would like or none if you don't like them and stir.
6. Wait for the gandules to come to a boil in the sauce then stir in rice. Make sure it is all mixed together well.
7. Add enough water to cover an inch above rice. Add salt and stir it in.
8. Let it boil uncovered and without stirring until most of the liquid evaporates.
9. Lower heat to medium-low or "2", give it 1-2 big stirs, cover pot with lid and cook for 15 min. Give 1-2 big stirs again then cook (covered) for another 10-15 & ur done!

Arroz con Gandules - a classic Puerto Rican savory rice dish cooked with meat, gandules (aka pigeon peas) and some olives then spiced up with a homemade sofrito for an extra delicious rice meal! Being Puerto-Rican myself, arroz con gandules without salt is unheard of. Which is probably why First of all Arroz con gandules is made with white rice. You can make it with brown rice but it will. Arroz Con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas) is a Puerto Rican dish popular in the Carribean.

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