Recipe for Gallo Pinto

I’m starting the viajar, comer, y celebrar tour with a bang of flavor – Gallo Pinto from Costa Rica

Gallo Pinto: Literally translated to mean “Painted Rooster” this rice dish is the best Costa Rican breakfast food. Heck, it may be the best breakfast food ever, period.

The standard Costa Rican Gallo Pinto consists of black beans, rice and tomatoes. My recipe contains a few more ingredients that rounds out the flavors and gives it the oomph that makes you always want “just one more bite“.

Ingredients:

White rice, tomatoes, cilantro, Chipotle Tabasco, Worcestershire Sauce, black beans, cumin and pork sausage are the main ingredients for Gallo Pinto.

Cook your white rice a day before if you can so that it will have time to cool and be able to soak up more of the diverse flavors, (my rice is less white here because I cooked it in leftover beet water, as I hate to waste leftover nutrients…)

You can also make your own black beans by soaking them overnight and then boiling them over the day. Buying canned beans is a much quicker option, though less authentic.

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Gallo Pinto

Course

Breakfast

Cuisine

Central American, Costa Rican, Rice Dishes

Servings

servings

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. Ground Pork Sausage
• 1 can Black Beans
• 3 cups White Rice cooked, cooled
• 2 Tomatoes medium size, coarsely chopped
• 1 cup Cilantro leaves washed, removed from stem
• 2 Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce
• 1.5 Tbsp. Chipotle Tabasco Sauce
• 1/2 tsp. Cumin
• Salt & Pepper to taste

Course Breakfast Cuisine Central American, Costa Rican, Rice Dishes Servings servings Ingredients 1/2 lb. Ground Pork Sausage 1 can Black Beans 3 cups White Rice cooked, cooled 2 Tomatoes medium size, coarsely chopped 1 cup Cilantro leaves washed, removed from stem 2 Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce 1.5 Tbsp. Chipotle Tabasco Sauce 1/2 tsp. Cumin Salt & Pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Brown sausage in frying pan. Drain grease.
2. Add white rice and black beans to sausage. Stir completely. Mix in Tabasco and Worcestershire Sauces and cumin. Stir and simmer for 5 min.
3. Add tomatoes and cilantro. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir and serve with a fried egg on top.

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I like to serve my gallo pinto with a fried egg on top. One more level of delicious flavor.