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

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, puerto rican rice & pink beans. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Puerto Rican rice is a yellow rice recipe where the rice is cooked in a sauce mixture called sofrito and takes on a yellow coloring through the spices in either Sazon seasoning, turmeric, or through using annato oil. 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.

Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Rice & Pink Beans:
  1. Get vegetable oil
  2. Get ham (diced)
  3. Take cilantro (finely chopped)
  4. Get 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. Get pimiento stuffed olives
  6. Take can tomato sauce (Goya)
  7. Prepare sazón culantro y achiote (Goya)
  8. Prepare beef bouillon (Goya)
  9. Prepare 15.5 ounce cans pink beans (Goya) (DO NOT DRAIN)
  10. Prepare water
  11. Prepare potatoes peeled and cubed
  12. Make ready 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.

Instructions 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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