Puerto Rican Rice and Chicken

Ingredients

• 4 thighs
• 1 cup diced onions (minced)
• 3 garlic cloves (minced)
• 2 oz. achiote oil
• 4 sweet peppers (chopped)
• 1 cup red peppers (minced)
• ½ cup of “recao” (cilantro)
• 4 cups medium grain rice
• 5 cups chicken stock or water

Ingredients: (Tostones)

• Green plantains
• Oil
• Salt

Directions

1. Heat the pan and pour the achoite oil.
2. Stir fry the thighs in a hot pan with onions, garlic and sweet pepper.
3. After everything is stir fried, add the rice in the pan and the chicken stock.
4. Allow the stock to evaporate, cover the pan and let it cook for approximately 20 min.
5. Before it is done, add the “recao”. 

Directions: (Tostones)

1. Peel the plantains
2. Heat the pan with the oil.
3. Cut them not to thick.
4. Sumerge them in the hot oil.
5. Take them out of the pan and flatten it.
6. Put them back into the oil.
7. Take them out and season them with a little salt.