Recipe: Appetizing Arroz con pollo (Chicken with Rice)

Arroz con pollo (Chicken with Rice). 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!

Our chicken and rice is extra special with the addition of Sazon GOYA® with Azafran, which adds color. This recipe for Spanish Arroz con Pollo is a one pot meal that's full of tender chicken thighs, creamy saffron rice and vegetables - the perfect quick and easy dinner! Turn to packaged saffron rice blend for intriguing flavor for this classic Mexican chicken dish, made even easier with frozen mixed vegetables. You can have Arroz con pollo (Chicken with Rice) using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Arroz con pollo (Chicken with Rice)

1. It's 1 lb of long grain rice.
2. Prepare 5 oz of capers.
3. It's 5 oz of green pitted olives.
4. Prepare 1 can of mixed vegetables.
5. Prepare 1/2 can of corn.
6. You need 1 small of onion.
7. Prepare 2 clove of garlic.
8. It's 2 oz of culantro.
9. It's 1 oz of tomato paste.
10. You need 5 oz of tomato sauce.
11. It's 1 lb of Bone in Chicken breast.
12. It's 5 oz of salt.
13. It's 1 oz of pepper.
14. You need 1 tbsp of chicken stock with food colouring.

Authentic Arroz Con Pollo, or Latin chicken and rice, is the ultimate one-pot meal. It's a classic Colombian dish that I grew up on that I now love to cook for my family. There are many variations on the classic arroz con pollo. It is a traditional Latin American and Spanish chicken and rice recipe.

Arroz con pollo (Chicken with Rice) instructions

1. In a large pan sautee the choped garlic and onion until golden, add the tomato sauce and paste, salt, pepper and chicken stock and chicken, bring to a boil and cook chicken for 30 - 45 min until chicken is very tender and falls off the bone. Keep adding water if needed so that it keeps everything submerged..
2. Take the chicken out of the pan and let it cool. Start threading the chicken and reserve for later..
3. In the same pot where you have the sauce boiling add the rice and a bit more water just to cover 1 cm over the rice..
4. Add the threaded chicken, capers, olives, the can of vegetables and the can of corn. Cook with closed lid until rice is fluffy..

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. Rice with chicken is one of the most popular dishes in Colombia and South America, but every country has their own variation. An arroz con pollo you find in Cuba may be quite different than one you find in Peru. Arroz con Pollo is a classic Latin American dish, with each country—and each family, for that matter—having its own unique recipe.