Congri Recipe
This congri is a classic cuban recipe that takes staple ingredients and transforms them into a rice dish with an exceptional depth of flavor.
Congri recipe. In a large stock pot add the drained beans the onion 4 garlic cloves bay leaves 12 bell pepper cumin and oregano. 1 teaspoon sunflower oil or peanut vegetable or olive oil optional. Arroz congri cuban rice and black beans this is very filling thanks to the beans. Congri is enjoyed all over cuba but its prepared a little differently from town to town.
Rice and black beans cook together in this flavorful dish. The aroma that fills your kitchen while cooking this cuban rice dish will make you want to pump up the salsa music and grab a mojito. Both of us thoroughly enjoyed your recipe. I used an electric pressure cooker to cook my beans and later to also cook the rice.
You cans enjoy this as a vegetarian main dish with a salad or great as a side dish with steak chicken or pork. This recipe uses a stovetop to cook both the rice and beans although the dish can be assembled more quickly using a pressure cooker and rice cooker and making the sofrito in a separate saute pan then mixing it into the rice before its all cooked. As a bonus the new kindle edition includes 14 new photos of the prepared dishes. Not only was he surprised but he was living the dream.
34 cup long grain rice 9 cups water or substitute chicken vegetable or beef stock method 11 teaspoon salt method 2. Minced ginger minced garlic lotus root ginkgo nuts shredded chicken crumbled pork bok choy soft boiled egg. Congri is a classic cuban recipe that takes staple ingredients and transforms them into a rice dish with an exceptional depth of flavor. But in havana where they moved in the late 1940s the black bean version is more popular and the one i prefer.
This new kindle version contains all of the recipes and editorial copy from the original print edition. I found your site the hungry cuban while browsing the internet and decided to try to make the congri to surprise my husband. Soak the beans for at least 4 hours. Serve alongside anything from ropa vieja to lechon asado to create a meal your family will love.
Click play to see this chinese rice porridge congee recipe come together. My mothers family is originally from oriente where its made using red beans. As a bonus the new kindle edition includes 14 new photos of the prepared dishes.