Puerto Rican Style Chicken and Rice
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
2
ingredients
- 1⁄2 green bell pepper, medium, seeded and cut into cubes
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1⁄2 onion, small. peeled and quartered
- 1 small tomatoes, cored and cut into quarters
- 1⁄2 cup fresh cilantro leaves, plus
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, for garnish (divided use)
- 1⁄2 cubanelle pepper, seeded and cubed
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 lb skinless chicken breast, skin removed (two breast halves, bone-in)
- 1⁄2 cup long-grain white rice
- 1⁄2 cup beer (may substitute wine or stock)
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 cup pimiento, slicd (sweet)
directions
- Place bell pepper, garlic, onion, tomato, 1/2 cup cilantro and cubanelle pepper in a blender or food processor; blend until mixed (you have now made sofrito).
- Add salt and pepper to taste and set aside.
- Heat oil in a large, nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
- Brown chicken on all sides, about 5 minutes. Add the rice and saute 1 minute.
- Add the beer, sofrito (vegetable mixture) and 1/2 cup water.
- Bring to a simmer, lower the heat and cook 15 minutes. Do not let the liquid come to a boil.
- Add the peas and pimentos and cook 5 more minutes.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Sprinkle with remaining cilantro and serve.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Chef Kate
Annapolis, 60
<p>I have always loved to cook. When I was little, I cooked with my Grandmother who had endless patience and extraordinary skill as a baker. And I cooked with my Mother, who had a set repertoire, but taught me many basics. Then I spent a summer with a French cousin who opened up a whole new world of cooking. And I grew up in New York City, which meant that I was surrounded by all varieties of wonderful food, from great bagels and white fish to all the wonders of Chinatown and Little Italy, from German to Spanish to Mexican to Puerto Rican to Cuban, not to mention Cuban-Chinese. And my parents loved good food, so I grew up eating things like roasted peppers, anchovies, cheeses, charcuterie, as well as burgers and the like. In my own cooking I try to use organics as much as possible; I never use canned soup or cake mix and, other than a cheese steak if I'm in Philly or pizza by the slice in New York, I don't eat fast food. So, while I think I eat and cook just about everything, I do have friends who think I'm picky--just because the only thing I've ever had from McDonald's is a diet Coke (and maybe a frie or two). I have collected literally hundreds of recipes, clipped from the Times or magazines, copied down from friends, cajoled out of restaurant chefs. Little by little, I am pulling out the ones I've made and loved and posting them here. Maybe someday, every drawer in my apartment won't crammed with recipes. (Of course, I'll always have those shelves crammed with cookbooks.) I'm still amazed and delighted by the friendliness and the incredible knowledge of the people here. 'Zaar has been a wonderful discovery for me.</p>