PUERTO RICAN WHITE RICE RECIPES

Steps:

• Stir rice and water into a medium pot with lid. Bring to a boil.
• Add salt and oil. Keep mixture at a gentle boil until rice is dry (it will not be tender). Use a mixing spoon to form a heap with the rice in the center of the pot.
• Cover and reduce heat to medium-low.
• Remove lid every 5 minutes to stir and sample rice. Rice will form a crust on the bottom of the pot if not stirred often.
• When rice is steamed to your liking, stir one last time to fluff; serve.

Steps:

• Peel the potato and cut into french fries style, soak in water with salt, meanwhile in a sauté pan sweet onions and garlic, and add chopped cilantro and culantro leaves. Add corned beef and slowly cook add tomato sauce and all dry ingredients, garlic, oregano, adobo, basil, cumin. While that is slowly cooking in a pot heat oil and deep fry the fries until golden brown, remove from oil strain and add to the corned beef mixture, cook for 5 minutes. In a caldero (dutch oven), add a tablespoon of olive oil and rice. Stir and then add water 1/3 of a finger above rice. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 20 minutes or until rice is tender. Serve rice on bottom of plate end top with corned beef. Buen provecho