Aguado Rice Recipe

Ingredients to make Aguado Rice:

• For 4 people:
• 1 lb of rice
• ½ pound of beef (in small or medium pieces according to taste)
• 2 pounds of chicken (4 pieces)
• 4 garlic cloves
• ½ stick of butter
• 2 tablespoons of corn oil
• 8 small tomatoes (finely diced)
• 2 onions (finely diced
• 2 chiltomas (finely diced)
• 1 Yerba buena (cut into small pieces)
• ½ pound of potatoes
• 1 consume chicken or chicken broth.
• 5 sour oranges (or depending on how sour you want it to be)
• 1 black pepper
• 1 Tomato sauce or achiote, (according to type of taste)
• Salt to taste)

How to make Aguado Rice:

1. Wash the meat and chicken well, the meat and the chicken in separate pans, they are cooked, a clove of crushed garlic, salt and a little sour orange, the same with the chicken and let it rest, so that the flavor can take on more meat and chicken, blend a small portion of garlic, onion, tomato and chiltomas and cook them and let them rest while you prepare the rest.
2. Separately, peel and cut the potatoes into squares, let them boil until they are semi soft.

RICE PREPARATION

In a baton, add the oil and in it add the chopped garlic and chopped onion and chiltoma, once burned, remove them and then add the butter, and then add the rice, stir well, gradually add the ingredients, such as meat, the chicken the good boil, tomato, onion, chiltoma, the crushed garlic clove and keep stirring until the chicken and meat are golden brown, I have made 2 liters of water, after that the achiotes or the sauce is made of tomato, the salt, the 4 sour Oranges and leave it for a period of half an hour or when the rice is very flat and soft and soupy.

Serve in a soup plate with a small sprig of good herb, add grated cheese to taste on top of the watery rice, it is a simple but very tasty meal, I hope you liked it.