DISH RESEARCH · Rice dish
Gallo Pinto
Mike Benayoun’s selected Costa Rican gallo pinto sautés peppers, onion and garlic, then combines cooked rice with canned black beans and their liquid. Lizano sauce, cilantro, salt and pepper season the finished rice-and-bean dish.
About Gallo Pinto
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Mike Benayoun’s Costa Rican selection of gallo pinto combines cooked rice and black beans with red bell pepper, onion, garlic and cilantro. His recipe for 196 flavors uses canned beans with their liquid and Lizano sauce.
Red bell pepper and onion sauté in a little oil until the onion becomes translucent. Crushed garlic follows for a shorter cooking stage.
The black beans are added with their canning liquid and the selected Lizano sauce. After a few minutes, cooked rice is gently stirred into the mixture rather than cooked from raw in the pan.
Chopped cilantro, salt and pepper finish the dish. The dark beans give the rice a spotted appearance, which Benayoun relates to the name gallo pinto.
The page offers avocado, eggs, tortillas, fried plantains and cheese as sides. Benayoun also describes a Nicaraguan red-bean version and emphasizes regional and family differences; those beans belong to another selection.
Ingredients in Gallo Pinto
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- Bell Pepperseasoning
- Cilantroseasoning
- Vegetable Oilcooking medium
- Black Beanother
- Riceother
- Red Beanbase
- Onionother
- Garlicother
- Saltother
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Origins & food traditions
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- Countries & places
- Costa Rica
- Cooking traditions
- Costa Rican
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