Arroz Congri

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 60 minutes

Servings: 4

Description

Cuban rice and beans. This recipe is a vegetarian version. It’s typically made with bacon. Will maybe make another one with bacon later idk.

Ingredients

  • 15 oz Canned Black Beans
  • 2 tsp Olive Oil
  • 1 pepper Chopped Green Bell Pepper
  • 2 cloves minced garlic cloves
  • 1 onion Chopped onion
  • 1 cup Uncooked long grain rice
  • 1.5 cup Water
  • 0.5 tsp Cumin
  • 1 leaf Bay leaf
  • 1 to taste oregano
  • 1 to taste salt
  • 1 to taste pepper

Instructions

  1. In a heavy medium sized pot, heat oil on medium heat
  2. Add onions, peppers and garlic and saute until soft, about 4-5 minutes
  3. Add rice, beans, water, cumin, bay leaf, oregano and salt and pepper. Simmer on medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until the rice absorbs most of the water and just barely skims the top of the rice
  4. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer 20 minutes
  5. Make sure you have a good seal on your cover, the steam cooks the rice. After 20 minutes, shut flame off and let it sit, cover another 5 minutes