How to make arroz con gandulez (puerto rican rice)

My home made sofrito you can buy it at the store or make it yourself

Gandulez look like this 😉

Those are our major ingredients : olives , sazon, tomato sauce, gandulez , bacon

What sofrito or recaito looks like

4 thick slices of bacon rough chopped

Put a little vegetable oil in the rice and stir it up

Then add two packets of sazon it makes it a light orange color

Fry up the bacon make sure it's crispy then add one packet of sazon

The rice should look like that

Add the sofrito to the bacon right before adding the rice do this on a medium high heat UPDATE: I now take the bacon out and leave the fat of the oil.

Mix the rice in and stir till it looks like that, you may add chopped sweet peppers now

Dump the entire can of gandulez including the liquid we don't use much water for this

The add the entire little can of tomato sauce

Add olives and stir

Half a cup of water

It should look like this it takes about 45 min for this rice to cook add water slowly and stir often

In the end 😛😍😍😍

And that's my scrubby ass ready to grubb hope you enjoy it 😘

Everyone will love it UPDATE: I crumble the left over bacon on top :-)