Baked Puerto Rican Arroz con Pollo | Recipe Drop | Food52

BAKED PUERTO RICAN ARROZ CON POLLO:
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We're celebrating Food52 bringing you new recipes 52 weeks out of the year today, 5/2 (get it?). Today on Recipe Drop, César brings you a dish that represents his background and personality in cooking. More on this dish from César: "If I had to identify one unifying culinary tradition between the Iberian Peninsula and all the nations of Latin America, aside from our shared languages, it would undoubtedly be Arroz con Pollo (known as Galinhada in Portugal and Brazil). This seemingly simple dish of chicken and rice, which everyone claims as their original creation and boasts as the best version, actually demands considerable technique and finesse. Variations abound: some countries prefer it soupy, others drier; some use the whole bird, skin included, while others opt for boneless or skinless cuts. My rendition of Arroz con Pollo is inspired by the Puerto Rican version I grew up with. It features a distinctive sofrito rich in sweet peppers and culantro, enhanced with small dices of smoked ham for an umami touch, and olives and capers that add a briny depth-a nod to Spanish influences. In true Caribbean style, a banana leaf imparts a fragrant aroma as the dish steams."
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Washing Your Meat
01:12 - Building Your Marinade
03:20 - Let's Talk About Sofrito
05:27 - Starting the Arroz con Pollo
07:19 - Sauté-ing the Sofrito
08:40 - Building the Arroz con Pollo
10:24 - Banana Leaves!
12:52 - Into the Oven
13:24 - The Big Reveal
14:23 - Tasting the Arroz con Pollo
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[@Candy_Camp]

Love this. Thank you for highlighting Caribbean cooking and traditions! ♥️🇻🇨

[@reb4898]

Thank you for the recipe…not mom’s chicken and rice with canned mushroom soup. And thank you for your adobo recipe. Great teaching style…to the point.

[@saraplease3615]

You impart so much information and your love of the food comes through…and I love how it does not feel rushed. Looks so delicious!

[@nancyvargas2279]

I grew up in a Domina-Rican household and I could swear that I could smell the food as it was sofriendo! I think it comes down to preferences. We would sofreir the chicken to brown it a bit. At times, mami added sugar to brown the chicken in the oil. It never tasted sweet. If dad cooked, he used tomato sauce, if mami cooked tomato paste. Bottom line, it was always delicious. Thank you for showing me your way.

[@PlantNatives]

Hey this is the most real and based episode from 52. Keep up the good work.

[@JackelineFilionPino]

I cannot wait to make this different take on my beloved arroz con pollo.

[@MsAsb-zx4sr]

Yes , I’m from Trinidad and we bathe our chicken in a lemon/lime.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

I don’t personally, but the elders in my blended Guyanese /Jamaican 🇬🇾/🇯🇲 family do

[@logan-is-hungry]

Looks f'ing amazing, and thank you for adding your adobo recipe in the comments. Excited to try this out against my in-laws' Panamanian version!

[@whiterabit]

Looks amazing. I can just imagine tasting that. ❤❤❤❤

[@susankilpatrick2918]

This guy knows his stuff - great camera presence. Lots of interesting information shared.

[@rebeccabrandt2505]

Your adobo recipe, por favor!

[@cesar.ramon.perez.medero]

Adobo Criollo 2 tablespoons garlic powder 2 tablespoons onion powder 1 tablespoon freshly cracked black pepper 1 tablespoon dried oregano 1 tablespoon dried thyme 2 teaspoons turmeric 1 teaspoon light brown sugar 1 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon coriander 1 teaspoon smoked Spanish paprika 1 teaspoon MSG (optional) Mix well and store in a jar with lid.

[@rebeccabrandt2505]

​@@cesar.ramon.perez.medero❤❤

[@lemcer1118]

Banana leaves suddenly craving to eat filipino food use hy banana leaves 🇵🇭

[@portisleft6483]

Wish I could taste it

[@rizkyridwan9829]

YO CESAR!

[@jottumpie5824]

you are the nicest cook so far with the most interesting recipes without too much stupid nonsense on food 52. I won't give up on you but I will keep watching. keep it up. I watch from the Netherlands. 👍🏻

[@Boddah.]

3:04 Gentrification?

[@cesar.ramon.perez.medero]

Goya

[@AlgebraNerd06]

👏 Cesar🫶

[@cjpowers9330]

This sounds amazing, but do I need a bank loan to get all the ingredients?

[@cesar.ramon.perez.medero]

Puerto Ricans have been making it just fine for generations so probably not.

[@alexanderposas4696]

My question is ask the celebrity Bad Bunny do we cook Puertorrican arroz pollo like that do we add beer in our food and he will laugh

[@cesar.ramon.perez.medero]

Casi no entendí lo que escribiste pero gracias por la risa, mano. ❤

[@Manolo4k]

Y que carajos sabe Bad Bunny de la cocina Boricua, si el tipo es un rapero.

[@alexanderposas4696]

@@Manolo4k Bad Bunny sabe cocinar el no tiene que ser rapero o famoso

[@alexanderposas4696]

@@Manolo4k Mira caballero yo no sé dé dónde tú eres yo soy un Hombre Puertorriqueño de Isla y todo los ingredientes son dé Goyas que vienen dé nuestra Isla sino nuestra comida no sirve ni tampoco para Bad Bunny yo no puedo comer algo que no fué del feto de mi madre que me alimentó antes de yo nacer y por favor trate de hablar más amable con los demás porque ese dé que carajo que mencionas no nos va gustar y te lo digo a las buenas estás hablando como un mexicano

[@alexanderposas4696]

And he poured beer to the chicken rice forget it he missed up

[@cesar.ramon.perez.medero]

Sounds like you need an ice cold Medalla. 😘

[@alexanderposas4696]

And us Puertorrican people from our Island we don't cook green rice we don't know what hell that it's

[@cesar.ramon.perez.medero]

“Grain,” not “green.” 😂

[@alexanderposas4696]

And he pour to the chicken rice forget it he missed up

[@alexanderposas4696]

What the hell he's cooking that's not puertorrican arroz con pollo and we cook them with gandules,cooked chicken fricasé, chicken broth, Sofrito goya frozed, adobo Goya and sazón Goya and none those Goya ingredients are added imagine how that taste weird trust I'm a natural real borned Island from PuertoRico 🇵🇷 and we don't cook Puertorrican arroz con pollo like that

[@cesar.ramon.perez.medero]

Esto tiene que ser un chiste. Gracias 🤣

[@Manolo4k]

Yo no se quien te dijo a ti que la comida criolla es sinónimo con Goya. Pero no importa, nunca estarás al frente de la cámara enseñándole al mundo de la comida Puertorriqueña.

[@joyontheleft]

he even said that he was making an OG pre-industrialisation version, before Goya was available

[@alexanderposas4696]

@@joyontheleft what you know stay away and stay away out my food culture I'm serious maybe he lives in California and he can't find our Goyas products right there. PuertoRico 🇵🇷 was discovered by Christopher Columbus and had turned a Territory of the United States