Best Cuban Yellow Rice Recipes

CUBAN BAKED CHICKEN WITH SWEET PEPPERS AND YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Pat the chicken dry and season with salt and pepper. Melt the butter with the oil in a large deep skillet, with a lid over medium-high heat. Add the chicken, skin-side down, and cook until well browned, about 6 minutes. Turn chicken and cook until other side browns lightly, about 2 minutes more. Transfer chicken to a plate. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons fat.
• Add the onion to the skillet and cook, stirring often, until soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook 1 minute longer. Add the peppers and cook, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes. Stir in the turmeric, cumin, rice, and 1/4 teaspoon salt and stir until the rice is coated. Pour in the broth, stir to distribute the rice evenly. Increase the heat to high and boil until liquid begins to be absorbed into the rice, about 2 minutes. Nestle the chicken in the rice. Cover and transfer the pan to the oven and bake until the rice is tender and chicken cooks through, about 25 minutes.
• Remove the cover, fluff the rice and stir in the peas. Cover and let sit to warm the peas, about 5 minutes. Season with additional salt and pepper. Serve.

CUBAN CHICKEN WITH YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large deep skillet over med-high heat. Add chicken and brown on both sides until golden and almost done. Remove to a plate, sprinkle with salt and pepper and keep warm.
• Pour water into skillet and add garlic. Bring to a boil and add rice and stir. Add chicken back to pan on top of rice and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat. Cook until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender, about 20 minutes.
• Spoon peas and roasted red pepper over top. Cover again and cook 3-5 more minutes.

GATORBEK'S CUBAN PORK, BLACK BEANS, AND YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Prepare yellow rice according to package directions.
• To prepare the black beans, combine the first seven ingredients in a medium saucepan.
• Bring just to a boil, then reduce heat to simmer on a back burner, stirring occasionally.
• Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat.
• Combine remaining dry ingredients (flour, cumin, oregano, cayenne, onion powder, and garlic powder) in a 1 gallon zipper bag.
• Add pork to bag and shake vigorously to coat.
• Remove pork from bag and add to hot oil.
• Brown on all sides, stirring until done.
• Remove pork to a plate and turn off heat to skillet.
• Pour black bean mixture into skillet to absorb pork drippings, stir gently until combined.
• To serve, put a scoop of yellow rice on each plate, topped with a generous ladle of black beans.
• Top with pork and garnish with lime wedge and sprig of cilantro.
• Serve with crusty bread.

CUBAN-STYLE YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Place the rice in a sieve and rinse under cold water until the water runs clear. Shake sieve to remove excess water from rice.
• Place rice in a large saucepan with a tightly fitting lid and add water. Stir in the onion, salt, annatto powder, paprika, and pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low, cover pan, and simmer. After cooking for 10 minutes, gently stir the peas into the rice. Cook until all the water is evaporated and the rice is tender, 15 to 20 minutes longer. Serve garnished with pimento slices.

CUBAN YELLOW RICE & VIENNA SAUSAGES, ARROZ AMARILLO CON SALCHICHAS

Steps:

• 1. heat canola oil in a large pot until just shimmering. You are going to start by making a sofrito. Add diced veggies peppers, onions, garlic and cilantro, saute until onion is limp.
• 2. Next add the wine to the sofrito; which is the onion, pepper, and garlic mixture. Then add the tomato sauce, and the seasonings, oregano, cumin, black pepper, garlic powder, the chicken bouillon cube, and the packet of Sazon Goya seasoning with culantro and achiote and the salt.
• 3. next to the sofrito add the sliced vienna sausages, the drained can of corn and slowely and gently stir everything until all is incorporated. Lower the heat to a simmer cover while you prepare the rice.
• 4. Rinse the raw rice twice in cool water rubbing the rice against each other with your hands. Drain both times and then add to the sofrito mixture. Add the chicken broth or water stir gently making sure all is very well incorporated. Sprinkle the peas on top do not stir; cover with a tight lid, lower the heat and cook for 45 minutes.
• 5. After 45 minutes have passed uncover, fluff with a fork and drizzle the two tablespoons of olive oil all over the rice then fluff again with a fork. Serve with a crispy salad, and bread. Buen Appetito

CUBAN CHICKEN AND YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Pour the 2 quarts of water and the 2 cans of chicken broth into a large pot over moderately high heat. Rinse the whole chicken under cold water and pat dry. Coat chicken with fresh ground black pepper and place in pot. Add sea salt and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer (partially covered with the lid) for approximately 3 hours or until the meat begins to fall off the bone. Remove chicken from broth and set aside to cool. Add garlic and rice Strip chicken meat from the bone and add to pot 15 minutes later add peas and diced roasted red peppers Cook until peas are soft. Taste for salt and pepper and adjust as needed and serve. Meal is best when served with fresh Cuban bread and real butter

CUBAN YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• In a heavy, wide bottomed pot, heat oil over medium heat. Cook onions and peppers in oil until onions are translucent. Add garlic and cook for another 3 minutes. Add tomato sauce and sherry and cook for another 4 minutes. Add Bijol or Annatto and stir. Add two cups of water and the broth, and bring to a boil. Add rice, stir once or twice and bring to a boil again. Cover and reduce heat to low. Cook for 20-25 minutes or until all liquid is absorbed by the rice.

CUBAN SPICY YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Combine all in the rice cooker. Takes about 20 minutes, depending on your cooker. You can adjust seasonings more or less, for your taste.
• Stove top: Combine all except rice in a saucepan, bring to boil. Add rice and cover. Reduce heat to low, cook about 20-25 minutes. Sit 5 minutes, fluff with fork. (Your basic rice cooking instructions).

APRIE'S CUBAN BLACK BEAN, SAUTEED CHICKEN BREAST OVER A BED OF YELLOW RICE.

Steps:

• Cut one half onions and green peppers into wedges, place to the side, and dice the rest into a small bowl. put the bean into a medium pot and add the diced onions and green peppers, 1 pack of Sazon, salt and pepper and brown sugar. Let it cook on a slow heat for about 30 minutes.
• Chicken breast season to taste, add 1 pack of Sazon, in medium sauce pan melt butter and add the chicken breast along with the onions, green peppers and allow it to simmer for tenderness.
• Jasmine Rice in a pot add 1 1/2 cup of water, with Sofrtio, Recaito Cilantro Cooking Base and 2 packs of Sazon. Let it cook for about 35 minutes, for fluffier rice leave on heat for 40 minutes.

CUBAN-STYLE YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Place the rice in a sieve and rinse under cold water until the water runs clear. Shake sieve to remove excess water from rice.
• Place rice in a large saucepan with a tightly fitting lid and add water. Stir in the onion, salt, annatto powder, paprika, and pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low, cover pan, and simmer. After cooking for 10 minutes, gently stir the peas into the rice. Cook until all the water is evaporated and the rice is tender, 15 to 20 minutes longer. Serve garnished with pimento slices.