Here is a dinner that we love. It’s easy and inexpensive to make.
We always have rice and beans on hand. Rice and beans are good economical food s that is cheap to buy.
Like I said the ingredients are simple. Very little prep work is needed for this dinner.
We add potatoes to our beans which helps the beans to stretch. You can even add small pieces of sausage in the beans. It’s just so delicious and filling.
This meal is part of our freezer clean out. We had a lot of chicken legs that needed to be used so why not cook them Puerto Rican style.
We used the air fryer instead of frying them in oil. We do 370 for about 30 minutes. Turning them every 10 minutes so they get nice and crispy.
The chicken right out the air fryer looked and smelled wonderful.
Puerto Rican Chicken Rice and Beans
Ingredients
- 3 cups what rice
- 2 tbsp oil for rice
- 1 to 2 tbsp salt for rice
- 1 15 oz can pinto beans
- 1 small potato chopped
- 1 can tomato sauce
- 2 cans water for beans
- 1 tsp onion powder for beans
- 1 tsp garlic powder for beans
- 2 tbsp safrito for beans
- 1 pk sazon for beans
- 1 tsp adobo for beans
- 1/4 cup green olives optional
- 6 chicken legs
- Seasoning for the chicken
- 1 1/2 tsp each of onion powder garlic powder, adobo
- 1 pack of sazon
Instructions
- Start by washing the rice. Rinse the rice until the water looks clear as best as you can. Then in a pot add about 1 to 2 tbsp oil and let that get hot. Then add in your washed rice along with water to cover about 1 inch over rice. Add in the salt and cook on a medium heat until the water has evaporated. When the water has evaporated stir and put a lid on and cook on low for about 30 minutes or until rice is tender.Add beans to a medium size pot add in the tomato sauce, water along with the rest of the ingredients. Potatoes, garlic powder, onion powder, sazon, adobo, safrito, green olives. Cook on a medium low heat until potatoes are tender and sauce thicken some. Season the chicken legs with the seasoning listed and marinate 1 hour or overnight which is best. Pre-heat the air fryer and then add the chicken legs once heated and cook at 370 for 30 minutes rotating every 10 minutes.
I’ve been cooking Puerto Rican food for a long time and this is definitely one of my favorite meals to make.
