Salvadoran · serves 4 · about 30 minutes
The marriage on the plate — day-old rice folded into red silk beans until neither is single anymore. El Salvador's everyday anchor, served from breakfast to last bite of the night.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Iberia Parboiled Rice 5 lbs
- 2 cups Iberia Small Red Beans W/S 15 oz
- 1/2 onion, minced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 green pepper, minced (optional)
- 2 tbsp Iberia Extra Virgin Olive Oil Blend 51 oz
- 1 pinch cumin
- to taste salt
Method
- Soften the onion, garlic, and pepper in the oil until sweet.
- Add the beans with a few spoons of their broth and let them bubble 2-3 minutes.
- Fold in the rice and the cumin, and fry together, stirring, until the rice drinks the bean broth and takes its color — the marriage.
- Let the bottom catch ever so slightly. That crust is the good part.
- Serve with crema, cheese, avocado, or a fried egg — or tucked beside everything else on the plate.