Arroz con Ganules 🇵🇷. Arroz con gandules is a combination of rice, pigeon peas, and pork, cooked in the same pot with sofrito. This is Puerto Rico's national dish along with roasted pork. Learn to Make Authentic Puerto Rican Arroz con Gandules.

A traditional Puerto Rican dish, arroz con gandules is rice cooked with green pigeon peas. This orange-hued dish is full of flavor from the herby, peppery sofrito and pairs nicely with stewed chicken, pork, or red beans. Don't worry if the bottom layer burns a bit as you finish cooking the rice. You can Cook Arroz con Ganules 🇵🇷 using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Arroz con Ganules 🇵🇷

It's 3 cups of medium grain rice (Goya).
What You needis 15.5 oz of Pigeon Peas (El Jibarito).
What You needis 3 tbs of corn oil.
What You needis 1 tbs of salt.
Lets Go Prepare 8 oz. of tomato sauce no salt added (hunt's).
It's 2.5 lbs of pork ribs (with or without bones).
What You needis 1 of Vidalia onion.
What You needis 3 tbs of Alcaparrado (Goya).
It's 1 clove of garlic (to season).
Lets Go Prepare 1 packet of beef flavor bouillon (Maggi).
Lets Go Prepare 1 of shaker Adobo all purpose seasoning without peppers(season).
What You needis 0.5 pack of Sazón Lite Culantro y Achiote (Bohio).
It's 0.25 of ham flavor concentrate (goya).
What You needis 1 tbs of Goya Recaito.
It's 1 tbs of Goya Sofrito.

I switch up my Arroz con Gandules by added the Spanish olives and the Bay leaves, WOW what a difference. I made it Noche Buena, and was so happy, I handed out dishes and everyone told me it was great. El arroz con gandules es una combinación de arroz, gandules y cerdo cocinados en la misma olla con un sofrito al estilo puertorriqueño. Es el plato insignia de la gastronomía de Puerto Rico, siendo también muy popular en el Caribe y el norte de Sudamérica.

Arroz con Ganules 🇵🇷 step by step

Get a 9 in Caldero pot.
Mix chopped onion, oil, alcaparrado(with 2 tbs of its juice), salt, sazon, ham concentrate, and bouillon in pot. Set on high heat. Stir..
Chop meat into 1 in. cubes. Season with Adobo..
Add pigeon Peas to pot. Mix for one minute. add tomato sauce to pot. Mix. Keep the pigeon Peas can. Taste the spoon constantly so you can judge if you like it..
Add meat to pot when it's about to start boiling. Mix..
Let it sit for about 5 min. or until the meat starts to look like it's cooking..
Fill Pigeon Peas can with water. Measure one cup of pigeon Peas water for every cup of rice (3 cups more). Sprinkle 1/2 Sazón..
Add rice (3 cups). Stir. Set to med heat. Let it dry (about 20 min or until water is absorbed into the rice). Partially cover the pot.
Once the rice looks like this picture, cover it and let it cook for 1 hour on low heat..
After about 45 min. stir and re-evaluate if it needs more time.

En el Caribe el Arroz con Gandules evoca los recuerdos de las fiestas, celebraciones, familia y amigos; después de todo es una parte esencial de la cena Navideña. La mejor parte de esta receta es que solo requiere de unos productos básicos GOYA, así que es fácil celebrar con este clásico. See authoritative translations of Arroz con gandules in English with example sentences and audio pronunciations. Esta receta de arroz con gandules es de mi mamá, que es puertorriqueña. This recipe of rice with pigeon peas is my mom's, who is Puerto Rican.