
Arroz con Gandules
4
Points® value
Total Time
1 hr 5 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
40 min
Serves
12
Difficulty
Easy
This hearty side, the national dish of Puerto Rico, gets lots of savory flavour from sofrito, which you can find with the Latin or Hispanic foods in your grocery store). Traditionally, the dish incorporates salt pork or bacon, but we opt for leaner diced ham instead. The pigeon peas are also traditional, and you’ll find them, too, on the global foods aisle. If you can’t find them, you can substitute pink beans, small red beans, or black-eyed peas.
Ingredients
Cooking spray
4 spray(s)
Cooked ham
½ cup(s), cubed
Sofrito sauce
¼ cup(s)
Ground cumin
1 tsp(s)
Kosher salt
½ tsp(s)
No salt added canned tomato sauce
8 oz
Ground coriander
5 gm
Canned green peas
15 oz, pigeon pea variety, rinsed and drained
Uncooked long grain white rice
2 cup(s), or medium-grain white rice
Pimiento stuffed olives
8 olive(s)