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Gallo Pinto from Costa Rica

Cooking Method
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Difficulty Beginner
Time
Cook Time: 20 20 mins Total Time: 20 mins
Servings 6
Description

This traditional breakfast dish combines leftover rice and beans with fried onions, peppers, and a secret ingredient that is very important to Costa Rica

Ingredients
  • 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
  • 2 cups white rice (cooked and leftover from night before)
  • 1.5 cup black beans (cooked the night before)
  • 1/4 cup bean juice or water (reserved from cooking the beans)
  • 1/4 cup yellow onion (chopped)
  • 1 clove garlic (minced)
  • 1/4 cup red pepper (chopped)
  • 1/4 cup cilantro
  • 2 tablespoons Salsa Lizano
Instructions
    Night Before
  1. Cook rice and black beans.
  2. Reserve the cooking liquid of the beans. Refrigerate all overnight.
    3. Make Gallo Pinto
  3. Heat vegetable oil in skillet over medium heat.
  4. Add chopped onion, garlic, red pepper, cilantro, and salt.
  5. Cook until onions are translucent
  6. Add black beans with reserved liquid and toss well.
  7. Add cooked rice and toss until the rice breaks up and everything gets heated.
  8. Add Salsa Lizano and mix well.
Keywords: Gallo Pinto, Rice, Beans, Rice and Beans, Costa Rican, Breakfast, Leftovers, Central American, Salsa Lizano, Latin American
Read it online: https://eatthisny.com/recipe/gallo-pinto-from-costa-rica/