I, personally, am partial to my grandmother's additions of lightly fried vienna sausages and a dried bay leaf or two for flavor, but either way, arroz con gandules is as much a general staple in ...

Like many, I grew up eating arroz con gandules at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other special occasions, alongside pernil (roasted pork shoulder), platanos maduros (fried plantains), and pasteles ...

Inside a new fast-food Puerto Rican restaurant on Whalley, Chef Raul Santiago combines richly seasoned pork fried rice, pinto beans ... said Santiago, holding out a plate of Arroz con Gandules. The ...

I like it best with a side of sweet, pan-fried plantains. “Here’s what I can tell you for sure,” Rivera says. “If there’s not a big caldero of arroz con gandules on the stove or table ...

In the summer, leaving camp early in the morning felt easier whenever an oversize pot of my favorite stewed chicken (pollo ... Abuela's rice with pigeon peas (arroz con gandules) waiting for ...

Pop in the gandules, or pigeon peas, add the arroz, the rice, cover, and cook on low heat for about an hour. And voila!, as they say in Spanish: arroz con gandules ... pointing to the dish before me, ...

How about a taquito, rolled up with chicken and served with cheese ... hand-crimped, and fried to golden perfection. Arroz con gandules “is very much like rice and beans, except that the ...

Dig into flaky empanadillas, classic arroz ... stewed chicken or crispy fried pork offered alongside rice and beans and sweet plantains; the next, classic comfort foods like churrasco con mofongo ...

Open since 2009, Mofongos serves up Puerto Rican favorites like pastelitos, yuca fries, arroz con gandules (pigeon ... are soulful stewed oxtails, fried chicken, and fritura (fried snacks ...

From the mobile eatery, the duo serve crispy amarillos (fried plantains), arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas), and ... The dish—which we recommend getting with shredded chicken cooked in ...