How to Cook Tasty Habichuelas Guisadas

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Habichuelas Guisadas, or Stewed Red Beans, is a savory dish of seasoned beans, usually accompanied by rice. It's a favorite meal or side dish in many Caribbean countries including Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Made with a handful of convenient signature GOYA® products, this In Spanish, habichuelas means 'beans' and guisado means 'stew'. You can cook Habichuelas Guisadas using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Habichuelas Guisadas

1. You need 1 can of Goya pink beans w/ liquid.
2. It's 1 can of Goya tomato sauce.
3. You need 1 cup of diced ham.
4. Prepare 2 of potatos chopped into small cubes.
5. Prepare 2 tbsp of oil.
6. You need 4 tbsp of sofrito (goya brand if you don't know how to make it).
7. Prepare 1 of garlic clove chopped/minced.
8. You need 1 packet of Goya sazon con culantro y achiote.
9. You need Handful of chopped cilantro.
10. It's of Green olives (optional).
11. You need 1-2 cups of water (depending on how thick you want it).

This gives a clear idea of what habichuelas guisadas are: a traditional Puerto Rican stew prepared with pinto beans, sofrito and meat. The principle of the stew is usually that of a mixture of meat, fresh vegetables and/or legumes is cooked in a sauce. The sauce can be more or less liquid and therefore the dish can be more or less. Habichuelas guisadas is a recipe that definitely qualifies as an essential Puerto Rican side dish.

Habichuelas Guisadas step by step

1. Heat oil in a pot on medium-high heat and cook ham until browned for 1-2 minutes..
2. Add sofrito, garlic & sazon and stir..
3. Add tomato sauce and stir..
4. Add can of beans and stir..
5. Add potatos, cilantro & green olives..
6. Add water and let it come to a boil then lower heat to low..
7. Cover pot w/ lid and let cook for 25-30 minutes then ur done!.
8. Serve over white rice or alone 😊.

If there is white or yellow rice on your plate, there better be some habichuelas! This is one of those dishes that each cook puts their signature on, kind of like Italian gravy. You know who made the beans just by eating them. Habichuelas Guisadas is somewhere between soup and sauce. The beans should have some "salsa" meaning liquid, but still be very creamy, because it is used to "wet" the rice --or the concón, if you are lucky enough to get some.