Sofrito Pork Chops with Yellow Rice
Tomato-based Sofrito sauce over pork chops and homemade yellow rice.
Ingredients
Ingredients
For the Yellow Rice
Method
- 1
Heat the olive oil over medium heat.
- 2
Add the onion and bell pepper and cook about 5 to 7 minutes, until they're very soft.
- 3
Add the garlic and cook another 30 seconds.
- 4
Stir in the tomato sauce, tomato paste, oregano, cumin, salt and pepper.
- 5
Reduce the heat and let it gently simmer for about 10 minutes.
- 6
Cook it exactly as you'd normally cook white rice.
- 7
If you're using your rice cooker, put all of that in together and use the white-rice setting.
- 8
Use a generous pinch of saffron — roughly 10 to 15 threads.
- 9
Bloom saffron first.
- 10
Put the threads in about 2 tablespoons of very warm chicken broth and let them sit for 5 to 10 minutes.
- 11
The broth should start turning golden.
- 12
Then pour the saffron threads and their liquid into the rice cooker.
- 13
Cook the pork chops in a skillet with olive oil, salt & pepper, until they reach 140F. OR grill chops over a charcoal grill!
- 14
Pour Sofrito sauce over chops and serve over the rice!
