Jagasita Portuguese Rice Recipes

PORTUGUESE RICE

Steps:

• In a 4-quart medium saucepan heat the oil over high heat until hot. Add the onion and cook, stirring, until softened, 4 minutes. Add the garlic, salt, red pepper, and bay leaf and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until they begin to soften, about 2 minutes. Add the water, parsley and cilantro and bring to a boil. Add the rice and stir well. When the liquid returns to a boil, stir again, then cover the pot and reduce the heat to low. Cook the rice undisturbed for 20 minutes, or until the liquid is dissolved and the rice is tender.
• Let rice stand for 5 minutes undisturbed before fluffing with a fork. Serve immediately.

CAPE VERDE JAGACIDA (PORTUGUESE RICE)

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a sauce pan and fry the sausage, season with salt and pepper
• Add the onions and garlic stir until onions are tender but taking care not to burn garlic
• Add water, tomato paste, bay leaf, and mix together well.
• Add in the lima beans and rice stirring to combine, bring to a boil
• Turn down to simmer and cover. Cook 20-30 minutes until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.
• Remove the bay leaf and serve.

JAGACITA - JAG - PORTUGAL

Steps:

• 1. Heat the olive oil in a large pot, add the onions and sauté until they are lightly golden, then toss in the parsley, paprika and bay leaves and simmer for a minute.
• 2. Pour in the water, cover and bring to a boil, then add the rice, salt and pepper, and re-cover.
• 3. When the rice starts to boil, reduce the heat to simmer and cook until the rice is almost down, about 15 minutes.
• 4. Stir in the beans, recover and continue to simmer for 15 minutes more, then shut off the heat and let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

JAGACIDA (PORTUGUESE JAG)

Steps:

• Heat oil in a 2 quart saucepan; Fry linguica, seasoning with salt and pepper.
• Add onions and garlic, sauteeing until onions are tender and translucent; be careful not to burn the garlic.
• Add water, tomato paste, and bay leaves, stirring until the tomato paste is dissolved. Add lima beans and rice, stirring to combine; bring to a boil on high temperature
• When it is boiling, turn to medium low heat and cover, cooking 20-30 minute
• Check occasionally, stir to avoid sticking, lowering the heat a smidge further if needed; rice should be fairly dry when cooked completely.
• Remove the bay leaves before serving.
• NOTE: if you'd like to lower the fat a little, try Gaspar's turkey linguica, it's sold in the same section as the kielbasa, chorizo, etc.
• NOTE: Can this be done with brown rice? I don't know -- but if some kind soul is willing to try, please post a review with your results!

PORTUGUESE RICE

Steps:

• In a 4-quart pot, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and garlic and stir-fry until golden. Add the rice and cook, stirring constantly, until slightly toasted and fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the water, bay leaf, tomatoes and salt and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce the heat so that the rice just simmers. Cook undisturbed until tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand covered without stirring for 10 minutes.
• Fluff with a fork, discard the bay leaf, and serve.

JAG (PORTUGUESE RICE AND BEANS)

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large, heavy pot over medium-high heat; add onion, green bell pepper, red bell pepper, sausage, black pepper, basil, and oregano. Saute vegetable mixture until the vegetables are very tender, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Stir beans into the vegetable mixture; cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
• Pour water over the vegetable mixture; add rice and stir. Place a cover on the pot, reduce heat to low, and cook until the rice is tender and the moisture completely absorbed, 20 to 25 minutes.

JAGASITA (PORTUGUESE RICE)

Steps:

• 1. Bring water, salt, pepper, paprika to boil. Meanwhile Brown onion w/rinsed beans in oil. Add to water w/butter. Stir & bring to boil. Lower heat stir, cover and simmer on low 30mn. (i use long grain brown rice and simmer 30mn longer).