Description
A dish served typically around Christmas time or large family occasions. Now you can impress your friends by upgrading the rice dish with bacon!
Ingredients
Scale
- Ham steak cubed
- 3 strips of thick cut bacon chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup green pepper
- 1 cup sofrito
- 1–15 oz green pigeon peas
- 1– 8 oz tomato sauce
- 2 cups of water
- 2 cups of rice
- 1 cup of olive oil
- 2 packets of sazon
- 1 teaspoon of adobo
- 1 teaspoon of cumin
Instructions
- Five-quart stock pot (Puerto Rican caldero is best)
- Fry bacon, garlic, green pepper and sofrito until bacon is fully cooked
- Add all seasonings,
- Add 2 cups of rice until slightly toasted
- Add peas, tomato sauce and cilantro
- Add cups of water to the pot just until rice is covered, sometimes I use only 1 cup of water and sometimes it needs two, just depends on how quickly everything else cooked.
- Simmer for 10 minutes with the lid on (very important to not touch the lid for the full 10 minutes)
- Check the rice, stir once and continue to simmer for the remaining 10 minutes.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 40 mins
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: Puerto Rican