Arroz con Chorizo (Colombian Rice with Chorizo)

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Rice cooked in broth with sliced chorizo, tomato, oregano and cumin, and peas if you want them. The chorizo fat is what flavours the rice. Forty-five minutes, for six.

Prep Time5

Cook Time40

Total Time45

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Colombian

Keyword: chorizo rice

Servings:

Calories: 473kcal

Author: Angela Giraldo

Ingredients

2 cups Rice derived from the 4 cups of liquid: see the notes
4 chorizo sliced
2 tablespoons oil
½ onion sliced
2 cloves garlic minced
4 cups water or chicken broth
240 ml tomato sauce
½ teaspoon dried oregano
½ teaspoon ground cumin
2 cups peas optional
Salt and pepper

Instructions

Heat the oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Cook the chorizo, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes.
Add the onion and the garlic and cook until the onion turns translucent.
Add the water or broth, the tomato sauce, the oregano and the cumin. Stir well, season with pepper, and add the rice.
Bring it to a boil, then turn the heat down to low.
Cover and cook for 30 minutes more, or until the rice is tender.
Add the peas and cook for two minutes more.
Serve immediately.

Notes

Two cups of rice is the figure, and it is worth explaining where it comes from because the original recipe never gave one. What the recipe does state is the liquid: four cups of water or broth plus 240 ml of tomato sauce, for six servings. Colombian rice is cooked at roughly two parts liquid to one part rice, which puts it at two cups. Judge the pot by the grain rather than by the clock, and if it is still firm when the liquid has gone, add a splash of hot broth and give it five more covered minutes. Cook the chorizo first and leave the fat in the pot. Two minutes over medium-high heat renders enough of it to colour the oil orange, and that fat is what carries the paprika and garlic in the sausage into every grain of rice. Pouring it off is throwing away the flavour of the dish. The peas go in for two minutes at the end because they are already cooked. If yours are raw, the recipe's own note says to put them in with the rice instead.

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