Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, rice and gandules. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Rice and gandules is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Rice and gandules is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Gandules (aka pigeon peas) are an exotic ingredient to most folks outside of the Caribbean. Parboiled rice is my favorite for this recipe because it's almost impossible to end up with mushy rice. My personal favorite dish is Puerto Rice and Beans, but no meal is complete without arroz con gandules.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook rice and gandules using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Rice and gandules:

1. Make ready 4 cubes red homade sofrito cubes
2. Prepare 1 rice spoon full of oil
3. Take 3 packets sazon
4. Prepare 2 packets jamon (pork bullion)
5. Prepare Half packet of chicken bullion
6. Prepare 1 can gandules
7. Prepare 2 empty dry veggie cans of rice
8. Get 4 dry empty veggie cans of water
9. Take 1 cup diced ham (optional)

Raise temperature to high, cover saucepan and bring all to a boil. After all, rice with pigeon peas is one of Puerto Rico's national dishes. This recipe is seasoned with Arroz con gandules can be served alone or with a variety of sides like Pollo guisado (chicken stew). Arroz Con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas) is a Puerto Rican dish popular in the Carribean.

Instructions to make Rice and gandules:

1. First put one rice spoon full of oil in a pot preferably a dutch oven pot.
2. Throw in cubed ham pieces once oil is hot let it fry a minute slowly add the three cubes of sofrito along with all packets of bullions and sazon stir and slowly add the gandules stir and let cook about 2 to 3 minutes
3. Then add the 4 cups of water still while stirring. Next let this boil about 4 mins
4. Add two cans of rice stir the rice with your mix and stir additional 1 minute and let it boil for about 6 to 7 minutes
5. Lower your flame cover and let cook for about 25 minutes
6. Remove from heat dump pot of rice and gandules in a pan or dish with out disturbing burnt layer of bottom rice that will be left behind
7. Mix the rice and gandules and serve!
8. Put pot in sink with water and soap to remove burnt bottom rice dont scrap it out about an hour of soaking removes it all!!

The pigeon peas are loaded with fiber which makes this a healthy side if cooked right.. Gandules (translation: Rice with Pigeon Peas) is a popular and traditional Puerto Rican rice dish. The complete Arroz con Gandules recipe is at the bottom of this post (Jump to Recipe), but first, here. Rice Recipes, Crockpot Recipes, Cooking Recipes, Gandule Rice Recipe Hawaii, Pastele Stew, Hawaiian Dishes, Hawaiian Patele's and gandule rice are very popular for being sold on the. Arroz con Gandules is the meal everyone in the Caribbean enjoys for the holidays or other celebrations with family and friends.

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