Better than Rice with "Chicken"

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Better than Rice with “Chicken”

Main Courses, Meat Alternatives

Servings: 4-6 Author: The Food Pharmacy

Description

Vegan Rice with chicken! Yellow rice stewed with chicken is a classic Puerto Rican dish. This flavorful version swaps the chicken out for soy curls, and upgrades to brown rice for extra nutrition. This is one plant-based Puerto Rican rice recipe you will want to make over and over again!

Ingredients

½ cup dehydrated soy curls

2 cups vegetable broth

1 TBSP tamari

Herbamare or salt and pepper to taste

¼ cup onion, diced

¼ cup bell pepper, diced

3-4 “ajicitos” (sweet latin american peppers), diced (optional)

2 culantro leaves, chopped (optional)

1 TBSP tomato paste

1 cup white wine

6 garlic cloves, crushed

¼ tsp turmeric

1 Tbsp Grilling Chicken seasoning (Simply Organic)

2 cups medium or long grain brown rice

Cilantro to taste

Directions

Rehydrate the soy curls in the vegetable broth and tamari for 15 minutes.

Drain the soy curls and reserve the liquid to cook the rice.

Dice the soy curls small and season with salt and pepper or Herbamare to taste.

Sauté the onion, bell pepper, ajicitos, and culantro at medium heat for 5 minutes.

Add the tomato paste and soy curls to the pan and mix well with the vegetables.

Cook for 3 minutes.

Add the rest of the ingredients except the cilantro.

Bring to a low boil, lower to medium low, and cover.

Cook for 40 minutes.

Stir and add cilantro. Serve.

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