Ingredients for Spanish Chicken & Rice: Part 1

Series Summary

Spanish cuisine is as great and rich as the culture from which is comes. The Moorish influence can still be tasted in much of Spanish cuisine, but foods like pork have been associated with a Christian identity, and have been injected into the tradition as well. Some typical and common Spanish dishes include, tapas, small snacks or appetizers served in bars, paella, a rice dish that usually contains seafood, and churros, a fried pastry type snack that is dipped in chocolate. Gazpacho is another Spanish favorite, a cold soup served with hard bread. But whether your a vegetarian, vegan, meat-eater, or completely indiscriminant about your food choices, Spanish Cuisine has something delicious for you.

In this free video series, our expert Lizbeth Muller will show you how to make Spanish chicken and rice. She will show you how to clean and cut the chicken, dice the onions, add seasoning, add wine, measure the water, and add beer and peas. She will also teach you how to dice the onions and tell when the chicken with rice is ready and cooked. Lizbeth will even show you how to serve and sample the Spanish chicken with rice.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Lizbeth Muller. Today I'm going to teach you how to make arroz con pollo. The ingredients to arroz con pollo so we have of course, chicken. I'm going to use chicken breast even though we use big whole pieces of chicken when we do chicken and rice; Cubans usually do that. But I like to use chicken breast cause it's faster to cook and it's also leaner. We use rice, we have here a green pepper, onion, olive oil, spices like peppers and season complete kind of seasonings, oregano, salt, saffron."