Arroz Con Pollo (Latin Rice and Chicken)

Ingredients

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  3 tsp or 14g

• Onions

  Raw

  ½ medium or 55g

• Cilantro

  Latin - Melissa's

  ¼ cup or 4g

• Garlic

  Raw

  3 clove or 9g

• Scallions

  Spring onions or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw

  5 medium or 75g

• Red bell pepper

  Sweet, raw

  1 medium or 119g

• Salt

  Table

  2 tsp or 12g

• Chicken thigh

  Broilers or fryers, meat only, raw

  8 thigh, bone and skin removed or 552g

• Vinegar

  Distilled

  1 tbsp or 15g

• Garlic powder

  Spices

  1 tbsp or 10g

• Tomatoes

  Red, ripe, raw, year round average

  1 medium whole or 123g

• Chicken broth bouillon

  Dry, cubes

  1 cube or 4g

• White rice

  Long-grain, regular, raw, enriched

  2 ½ cup or 463g

Directions

1. Season chicken with vinegar, 1/2 tsp sazon, adobo and garlic powder and let it sit 10 minutes.
2. Heat a large deep heavy skillet on medium, add 2 tsp oil when hot.
3. Add chicken and brown 5 minutes on each side. Remove and set aside.
4. Place onion, cilantro, garlic, scallions and pepper in mini food processor. Add remaining teaspoon of olive oil to the skillet and saute onion mixture on medium-low until soft, about 3 minutes.
5. Add tomato, cook another minute. Add rice, mix well and cook another minute.
6. Add water, bouillon (be sure it dissolves well) and remaining sazon, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot.
7. Taste for salt, should taste salty enough to suit your taste, add more as needed.
8. Add chicken and nestle into rice, bring to a boil. Simmer on medium-low until most of the water evaporates and you see the liquid bubbling at the top of the rice line, then reduce heat to low heat and cover. Make sure the lid has a good seal, no steam should escape (You could place a piece of tin foil or paper towel in between the lid and the pot if steam escapes).
9. Cook 20 minutes without opening the lid. Shut heat off and let it sit with the lid on an additional 10 minutes (don't peak!!!) Fluff with a fork and eat!
10. Recipe by: Gina (source: https://www.skinnytaste.com/arroz-con-pollo-lightened-up/#recipe)

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