Thank you Mama Rosa! I am part puerto rican and my grandmother (and her sisters) never shared her complete recipe for anything. I bet this recipe would be amazing poured over a fried plantain. Nothing beats a tomato-based sauce.
My boyfriend whom I’ve been with for a few years is Puerto Rican and his mom makes delicious food. We recently moved away from home and I’m trying my best to make food like his mom does💕to make him feel at home. This was very helpful, thank you for sharing!
I knew there was something about you that was familiar. I'm also half Puerto Rican and saw that in you from the beginning. I'm a pepper in Sacramento CA and have been subscribed to your channel for some time. Thank you for all your suggestions during this pandemic
Mama would be so very proud of you primo! She didn’t teach us the language because her children were looked at & spoken down to as “immigrants” and were severely demeaned when they were young! She didn’t want any of us to feel that hurt. At least that’s what she told me when I inquired about it! I miss her every day! Thanks for sharing her love of cooking! You did her rice & beans perfectly!!! That’s exactly how I remember it!!! XOXOX
Thank you, prima! Yeah, I was told the same thing too about why we weren't taught the language as kids. I totally understand and appreciate their reasoning, but part of me still wishes that I was fluent in the language so I could fit in more with our people. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video! It's so cool for the people who follow my channel to learn just a little bit about our beloved Mama, who is missed daily within our family. Love you! 🇵🇷
@@TheUrbanPrepper Not expensive, and also filling and pretty nutritious honestly! A GREAT meal. Now I might make some, need some sazon, only have the Cilantro Sofrito not the tomato in the house, but it is good too! Honestly it is the BEST tasting way to have beans and rice!
I'm Puerto Rican 100% my man is caucasian. He will not eat my food at all and I'll tell you he's the first man I ever been with who won't eat Boricua food 🤦🏽♀️
Thanks for the recipe! Translating and finding the ingredients here in Europe will be great fun! So much to learn about the world! I'm looking forward to cooking this!
Puerto Rican here, I have made this dish all my life and you can make it from fresh ingredients, fresh minced garlic, dried beans if you dont have canned, fresh potatoes, pork any pork will do, the fattier the better, tomato sauce or paste, annatto seed oil, make your own by steeping in warmed oil for an hour until nice and red or you can use powder if you can find it or leave it out, and season it with salt, black pepper, turmeric, oregano, garlic power if you dont have fresh, and onion powder these are the same ingredients in Adobo minus the anti-caking chemicals and MSG which may cause cancer, cook same way in video and serve over rice with a nice thin fried pork chop, enjoy.
Haha. No, I heard about it. Honestly, it doesn't matter to me who people decide to vote for. I'm not changing my grandma's choice of ingredients on behalf of the 2020 political climate. :)
I was watching your video when saw our Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 flag and ask myself: who’s this guy that is talking about rice and beans? And it was a great pleasure for me watching you cooking in perfect way 👍. My oldest son is in the ARMY, I’m a veteran, my youngest son is an Irak vet, & my 2 grandsons are in the Army. I’m just telling you this because I saw the picture of your father or grandpa in Army uniform. Anyway I’m starting to do as you a preppier. And your videos are very educational. You can find me in FB. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. 🙏. And keep doing your videos👍
TheUrbanPrepper : YOU HAVE A LOT MORE TO TEACH BECAUSE OF ALL THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE ON THE PREPPER ISSUES, AND I HAVE A LOT TO LEARN FROM YOU. GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🙏
This made me tear up. I never got the chance to spend a lot of time with my own grandparents (let alone learn any family recipes!) so I think it's amazing you learned so much from your Mama before she passed. Thank you for sharing, this looks so good!! 😭💜
Now i get your OCD for preparedness Is in your puertorican DNA be ready In case of those still in the island Would the hurricanes For you and myself(iam puertorican also)is everything and anything
Thank you so much! I really like that I feel like I have the creative freedom to cover a wide range of topics on my channel. I appreciate your support.
That looks delicious. Its funny how housewives' identity was wrapped up in their cooking prowess. Times have changed-- I give my recipes out to anyone who asks.
LOL! Yeah, nowadays people share their recipes with anyone interested. Mama used to get pissed about us going to this one local Puerto Rican restaurant, even though they made excellent food, because she didn't like us eating Puerto Rican food from anywhere but her house. My grandfather (Papa) would never go until after Mama passed away. :)
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I am full Puerto Rican from Rio Piedras and the whole reason I prep was from watching my Mamita, Tias y Abuelas, get ready for hurricane season. I get that you are making the recipe for emergency situations but know that my mom either put cut up carrots or pumpkin chunks in her habichuela recipe. I like making my sofrito fresh but Goya or Bohio are ok. If you can get your hands on the book Puerto Rican Cookery that is the translation of the original Cocina Criolla, you can make all the same things Abuela made.
I love this story! Yes, I have the Puerto Rican Cookery book. It's awesome! I have one of Mama's old copies in addition to a new one (in English). I've heard of other families using carrots or even yams in their beans. I just remember Mama using potatoes. Nice to know that you are full 🇵🇷!
@@TheUrbanPrepper my cookbook is so old and worn but it has my Abuelita's handwriting all over it. When I got married, my Abuelita started teaching my half German/half Irish husband how to make rice with pegao and habichuelas. For Christmas she bought him the English version. I treasure it. All you need for a perfect dinner now is tostones and a fried egg on top of the Arroz and Habichuelas 🤣🇵🇷. I still cannot eat oatmeal made with water like they serve it here. I have to eat it Puerto Rican style with ground oatmeal, milk, cinnamon stick, sugar and lemon peel lol. You are making me miss home 😫
Tnx for sharing, i'm not one for beans most of the time, but this sure made me remind myself of Pavlov ;) ... also do think that 'pantry cooking' is a topic that's covered to little on prepper channels (even though it pops up every once in a while), and having these types of recipes that can be made from the actual food storage are pretty welcome in my views; as having more ways to prepare 'rice and beans' seems like something every prepper will want to know...
Thanks for creating this video! Over in the UK we don't have a few of those ingredients in our supermarkets but it's fascinating to hear about new cuisines. Also rice & beans are a staple "end of the month" meal for a lot of people managing on a budget and it's interesting to hear about ways to make them tasty. Hope you're keeping well.
Puerto Rican here, I have made this dish all my life and you can make it from fresh ingredients, fresh minced garlic, dried beans if you dont have canned, fresh potatoes, pork any pork will do, the fattier the better, tomato sauce or paste, annatto seed oil, make your own by steeping in warmed oil for an hour until nice and red or you can use powder if you can find it or leave it out, and season it with salt, black pepper, turmeric, oregano, garlic power if you dont have fresh, and onion powder these are the same ingredients in Adobo minus the anti-caking chemicals and MSG which may cause cancer, cook same way in video and serve over rice with a nice thin fried pork chop, enjoy.
Shout out to the ladies who knew how to cook and the young ones as well, being a Purto Rock it was the go-to, Rice and Beans will be my last meal on this earth if I can help it!!!
Puerto rican food is soo underrated not sure why it's not more popular in America most people seem to look down on you if you eat this type of food all the health nuts always have a problem with everything so most of these ingredients they would probably think are terrible but I have tried to make some Puerto rican dishes recently from youtube and can honestly say I loved everything I tried the food had so much flavor and it felt so satisfying to eat actually I think it was one of the best meals I had in years
Thanks for sharing! One big criticism of stacking staples like rice and beans is "Can you eat the same bland food!?" It doesn't have to be bland though!
Sounds good 👍 In case you haven’t figured out how to make sofrito. Here’s the recipe. Use your judgment on how much you want to make by adding or lessening your ingredients. I buy cilantro 🌿 garlic 🧄, green peppers, 🫑 onions 🧅 sweet chili peppers (aji dulce), recao 🍃. Mix altogether in a blender for about 1 to 2 mins. Done…put your sofrito in glass jars to keep it fresh and refrigerate.
This is almost exactly how I make my pink beans and rice minus the meat. I’m going to add meat next time. I also use the jarred society from Goya. I learned the recipe from my neighbor when my husband was in the army. One of the best parts of military life is having friends and neighbors of all cultures and recipe exchange and pot lucks. When my husband retired from the army, we spent at least 2 years sad and depressed because we missed meeting new people. Side note. I have made this with small red beans before and it was delicious. I’ve used a mix of pink beans and small red beans and black beans and it was delicious. Sometimes you just gotta use what you got! I must say my absolute favorite is using the original pink bean though. There have been times I didn’t have pink beans or didn’t want beans so I used all the ingredients to flavor my rice then threw it all in the rice cooker, it was Pretty delicious. I usually always have people ask me for the recipe. Either way I make it!
The way he said *sazon* 🤣 But yes that's the way to cook it. Sometimes I come to RU-vid to remind myself n to see others way see if I can find alternatives as well
As a Certified Chef and Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 My respect to you Prepper, I also have my signature recipes from my MOTHER And grandma(RIP) this absolutely on POINT, I go more FROM scratch. Then can pantry but you did a great job on this PARTICULAR recipe ❤🙏🏾🔥🇵🇷 🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing your grandmas recipe! I’m also Puerto Rican and like to make my own sofrito. Pink beans and gandules are my favorite beans. I became a prepper about 3 years ago from watching your videos. Great music to end your video. Love your channel!🇵🇷
Grandma used SPAM, Love rice and beans but the beans haven't been agreeing with me lately..ohh boy ! Anyone wanna trade me for my life time supply of beans ?
Keep in mind that if you're holding back these recipes and something happens to you, they're gone forever. This happened with my grandmother nearly 30 years ago and we lost all of those "secret recipes" that she had. Some were completely gone and others just had vague instructions like "add salt" or "bake".
That's a good point that I hadn't considered. Mama's recipes were mostly visual, where she would toss in an arbitrary amount of something and just say "this much" with regard to the quantity.
@@TheUrbanPrepper Yeah my mom and Abuelita would have me hold out my hand and pour the ingredients amounts into my palm (except for the oil) and say exactly the same thing "this much of this and this much of that".
Definitely going to try this once I get all the ingredients. Thamk you for sharing! I've been making beans for the past 2 months and I'm always looking for different recipes.
I really like how you spoke about your grandmother and some cultures they believe that people reemerge in our memories or when we tell stories about them and they can enjoy the memories and the stories as well so keep it up I'm sure she's proud
I looked up beans for white rice recipe to make dinner tonight ( I’m a huge fan of your channel ) I can’t believe you showed up as the first one lol that’s crazy
