Arroz Con Polo (Chicken and Yellow Rice)

Author: Randy Christopher

Ingredients

• $2$ cups Uncle Ben’s long grain rice
• Chopped cilantro
• Dash of salt
• $2$ to $4$ drops of yellow food coloring
• $4$ tablespoons green olives
• $4$ skinless chicken breasts
• $1$ can gandules (pigeon peas)

Instructions

• Add olive oil to large pot.
• Add chicken and simmer for $5$ minutes or until brown.
• Add olives, $3$ to $3\frac{1}{2}$ cups water, cilantro, salt, pepper, and food coloring.
• Cover and cook on medium for $10$ to $15$ minutes.
• Add rice, making sure there’s enough liquid in pot to cover rice. If not, add liquid from can of gandules.
• Uncover and lower heat.
• Cook till liquid evaporates.
• Add gandules the last $5$ minutes.

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Serve with Marc Anthony music in the background and a tight belly shirt, wild colored pants, and don’t forget the stiletto heel!!