Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, arroz con pollo (rice with chicken). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mama's Puerto Rican Chicken and Rice also known as Arroz con Pollo. This one pan dinner is made with homemade adobo seasoned chicken, sofrito and savory rice. You'll make this recipe again and again!
Arroz con pollo (rice with chicken) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Arroz con pollo (rice with chicken) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have arroz con pollo (rice with chicken) using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Arroz con pollo (rice with chicken):
- Get 3 cups basmati rice
- Take 6 chicken pieces (preferably thighs and drumsticks)
- Get 500 ml chicken stock
- Take 4 tbsp Sunflower/olive oil
- Take All purpose seasoning
- Get Salt
- Prepare Black Pepper
- Make ready Fresh Thyme (3 sprigs)
- Make ready 3 bay leaves
- Get 1 medium onion (roughly chopped)
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic (crushed)
- Get Bell peppers- 1 red, 1 green (deseeded and thinly sliced)
- Take 2 deseeded thinly sliced scotch bonnets
- Prepare 4 cm root ginger (finely chopped)
- Get 2 tsp turmeric
It's a classic Colombian dish that I grew up on that I now love to White meat is not my personal preference, but you can use diced chicken breast if you prefer. I season my chicken and rice with sazon, a common. A staple in Latin American kitchens, arroz con pollo combines inexpensive ingredients—chicken, rice, and spices—in a filling one-pot meal. To make our version, we chose moist chicken thighs, which we browned in a Dutch oven to build flavor and render fat.
Instructions to make Arroz con pollo (rice with chicken):
- In a bowl, wash rice until water runs clear
- Season chicken pieces with all purpose seasoning, black pepper and salt. Heat oil in a heavy based frying pan and brown chicken on all sides. (Do not cook through)
- Remove chicken and set aside.
- Sauté garlic, onions and peppers in the pan. Add ginger, turmeric and scotch bonnet and stir for about 1min.
- Transfer chicken into a large oven dish (chicken pieces should all be on a single layer) add the sautéed ingredients above and pour the rice all over the chicken. Pour in the chicken stock and add bay leaves, thyme sprigs and season everything in the dish really well.
- Cover with foil and place dish in the oven.
- Cook on gas mark 4 for 40-45mins until all the stock has been absorbed, rice and chicken are cooked (pierce the chicken and if the juice runs clear then it's cooked!) no need to stir the rice during cooking.
- Remove the foil and allow the top to brown a little.
We used the food processor to transform onion. Arroz con Pollo is a classic Latin American dish, with each country—and each family, for that matter—having its own unique recipe. For mine, I like to use whole pieces of chicken (legs or thighs) that I season with chile powder, cumin, and oregano before adding the rice. Colombian-Style Arroz con Pollo was one of my favorite recipes growing up. My mom would make it at least once a week for lunch.
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