Arroz con Gandules

Recipe courtesy Alex Garcia

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1 hr 10 min
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10 min
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Ingredients

  • 6 strips bacon
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 2 aji verdes (Italian frying peppers), diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 pound ham, diced
  • 3 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 2 (15-ounce) cans pigeon peas
  • 6 cups chicken stock
  • Salt, to taste
  • 6 cups Canilla rice
  • Banana leaves (optional)

Directions

In a saute pan, cook the bacon, drain the fat and cut into small pieces. In the same pan, add onion, aji verdes and garlic. Saute until golden brown. Add the ham. Add tomato paste and caramelize. Add pigeon peas and chicken stock. Season with salt to taste and bring to a boil. Add rice and stir once. Cook on medium heat until most of the liquid is absorbed. Cover with banana leaves and continue cooking on very low heat until the rest of the liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes.

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  • on April 02, 2013

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    I've been making this dish forever; Puerti Rican style. My recipe is slightly different without
    a couple of items you mentioned, and with a few more of my own. I don't plan on preparing
    this one since I know mine is better. What I would like to mention is that you don't want
    to confuse people by listing both black-eyed peas and gandules in the same recipe. It's
    called "arroz con gandules", not "arroz con black-eyed peas. They are not the same and
    there is no conparison.

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  • on October 26, 2011

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    I Agree about the amount of Water being used, WAY TOO Much! I think it's an error as you stated. I believe it should be 3 Cups of Rice with 6 Cups of Water, NOT 6 cups of Water. THANKS for clearing that up, I DON'T want to have gummy rice. Thx! ;

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  • on September 01, 2010

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    I made this dish tonight, and I noticed that the recipe calls for six cups of chicken broth and 6 cups of rice. Knowing what I do know about rice, it sounded like perhaps the recipe should have said 3 cups of rice. Because I had drained the water from the two cans of gandules peas, and the recipe did not specify whether to drain the cans or not, I thought maybe this accounted for some of the extra liquid that the recipe would need. I cut the amount of rice to an amount that I thought would be correct taking the amount of liquid into account. There was still too much rice. I added more water and now I have a huge pot of gummy rice.

    I find it hard to believe that 7 of you "tried" this recipe and thought it was so good, yet none of you commented on the error with the amount of rice. I also am incredibly annoyed that, once again, Food Network did not proofread this recipe before posting it. Thanks a lot, Food Network.

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