Red beans and rice cooked together with pork, a staple side dish of eastern Cuba.
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Ingredients
🫘2 cups red beans, soaked
🍚2 cups rice
🥓150g bacon or salt pork, diced
🧅1 onion, chopped
Method
Serves 3
1
Boil the soaked red beans until tender, reserving their cooking liquid.
2
Render diced bacon in a pot, then sauté onion and garlic.
3
Add the rice and beans with their liquid.
4
Cover and cook over low heat until the rice is fully tender.
5
Fluff with a fork before serving.
✓ What Makes it Authentic
Congri is a traditional Cuban rice dish, especially associated with the eastern Oriente region, distinguished from moros y cristianos by its use of red beans.
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