Rice With Pigeon Peas Recipes

ARROZ CON GANDULES (RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS)

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook Sofrito in oil over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Add rice and sazon; cook and stir until rice is lightly toasted, 3-4 minutes. Add all remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until rice is tender, 15-20 minutes. Fluff with a fork.

PIGEON PEAS AND RICE

Steps:

• Place pigeon peas in bowl and cover with several inches extra water; soak overnight. Drain.
• In a large, heavy saucepan, combine drained pigeon peas with water (or water and coconut milk). Bring to the boil and add the ham hocks, onion, 1 clove of the garlic, and the chile. Reduce heat to medium-high and simmer, uncovered, until the peas are tender, about 45 minutes.
• Stir in the rice; reduce heat to medium, cover, and cook until the rice is tender, another 20-30 minutes. About 5 minutes before the rice is tender, add the last garlic clove to the pot by squeezing it through a garlic press.
• Adjust seasonings with salt and pepper and red-hot sauce, if using, and serve.

COCONUT RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS

Steps:

• Heat oil in heavy saucepan. Add onion, and cook over medium heat until soft. Stir in chili and rice, and cook a few minutes. Fold in 1/2 cup coconut milk and pigeon peas. Add stock. Bring to a simmer. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Cover pan with double layer of plastic wrap so wrap clings tightly to pan, extending about an inch below rim. Place cover of pan over plastic wrap to make a tight seal. Cook over low heat 15 minutes. Remove pan from heat, and set aside 15 minutes.
• Uncover pan, and remove plastic, using mitts because the steam can burn. Stir rice. Spread out in shallow baking dish to cool.
• To serve, remove chili. Fold in scallions, bell pepper and thyme. Check seasonings. Return to saucepan, cover, and gently reheat. Fold in remaining coconut milk, and serve.

PIGEON PEAS AND RICE

Steps:

• Place the olive oil in a deep saucepan and saute the onion, garlic, green pepper, oregano, basil, cayenne and salt pork until the onion is translucent.
• Drain the pigeon peas and add to the mixture. Stir to coat, approximately 1 to 2 minutes. Add the bay leaf and enough water to cover and simmer until the peas are firm, about 1 hour. Adjust water and add salt and pepper to taste if desired.
• Add the rice and enough water to cover to a depth of 1 inch. Continue simmering until the rice is done, about 20 minutes. Adjust the seasonings. Let stand for 15 minutes. Stir before serving.

YELLOW RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS

Steps:

• Make Sofrito:
• Purée all sofrito ingredients in a food processor.
• Make rice:
• Cut out a round of parchment or wax paper slightly larger than diameter of a wide 4- to 5-quart pot.
• Pat ham dry and cook in annatto oil in pot over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until starting to crisp, about 4 minutes. Add sofrito, olives, and capers and cook, stirring, until liquid has evaporated, about 5 minutes. Add rice and cook, stirring, until it sizzles, about 2 minutes.
• Stir in peas, water, and 1 1/4 teaspoons salt and bring to a simmer. Simmer, uncovered, over medium-high heat until almost all of liquid is absorbed, about 10 minutes, reducing heat to medium once water is below level of rice.
• Gently stir from bottom to top, then smooth top of rice. Place parchment round directly over rice and cover pot with a tight-fitting lid. Reduce heat to low and cook, undisturbed, 30 minutes.
• Remove from heat, then discard parchment and gently fluff rice with a fork. Cover with lid and let stand 10 minutes.

RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS, PORK & BACON

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Cook tenderloin and bacon in ovenproof Dutch oven or large deep skillet on medium-high heat 5 min. or until tenderloin is golden brown, stirring frequently. Add onions, peppers and garlic; stir. Cook 3 min. or until vegetables are crisp-tender, stirring frequently. Add next 6 ingredients; bring to boil.
• Dissolve annatto paste in 1 cup hot water. Add to rice mixture; stir in remaining hot water and cilantro. Bring to boil; simmer on medium-low heat 5 min. Remove and discard bay leaves. Cover with lid.
• Bake 25 to 30 min. or until rice is tender.

GRANDMA'S RICE AND PIGEON PEAS (RICE COOKER)

Steps:

• Wash rice really well until water runs clear, strain well, put in rice cooker and add water, set aside.
• Heat pan on medium high heat, add olive oil or lard, let it heat up a bit like 5 minutes more or less. Be sure the oil is hot enough, you can test it by dipping a wooden spoon if it sizzles it's ready.
• Add season port to hot oil, let it fry in one layer underdisturbed until browned. About 5 minutes more or less. Add minced onion and bell pepper and cook down together with pork for about 5-7 minutes, add minced garlic afterwards and cook for 2 minutes or so until fragrant.
• Turn off heat and dump this sautee into the rice cooker with the rice and water, mix well. Add drained can of pigeon peas, 2 teaspoon salt, 1 sazon goya, and 1/4 teaspoon cumin. Mix well. Taste the water in there, it should be salty like ocean water, if not add more salt carefully. Increasing by 1/2 teaspoons and so on but don't use more than 3 teaspoons.
• Cover and turn on rice cooker and set to cook, when it beeps the rice is done. Fluff it and it's ready.

RICE WITH PIGEON PEAS

Steps:

• Cook and stir first 5 ingredients in large skillet on medium-high heat 5 min. or until vegetables are crisp-tender.
• Add water, peas, tomato sauce and seasonings; stir. Bring to boil.
• Stir in rice; cover. Simmer on medium-low heat 20 min. or until rice is tender.