To avoid mushy rice, you'll want to boil your rice until most water has evaporated.. Do not stir at any time! Once water has evaporated, place on low heat and cook till ready..for me at least an hour.

I have used your recipe now 4 or 5 times for my family, and they LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Thanks for helping me get in touch with my roots! Viva Puerto Rico!

This is great, I am puerto rican its not quite like my grams but close everyone that is having issues with how its turning out could be using the wrong kind of pot to cook it in, you can not use a regular pot or pan it doesnt allow the rice to cook the same way I use cast iron.

I had to up pretty much all the ingredients to add flavor. Too bland for my taste. Was delicious with the higher portion seasonings. Awesome base recipe.

This was perfect! Thanks for the easy instructions!

Thank you

Recipe was awesome. I did not have the bacon so I cut pieces of frying pork and used that. I also did not have tomato paste, so I used half a can of tomato sauce. Plus my wife loves olives so I out a few more of those in there as well. Made it twice already and did not waste any. Thank you

I noticed it also depends on what type of rice is used canilla par boiled rice catches the flavor better unlike uncle bens rice which doesn't catch the flavor try it out to see if there is a difference.

I'm Puerto Rician and Colombian. I could never make it or have a taste like this, because I would cook more Colombian dishes but... wow! I'm glad I took your advice. Thank you!

This recipe is spot on to my taste buds. Want to make Puerto Rican rice that feels and tastes like home. This is where its at. Thanks yasmi. Estaba delicioso!

First time making rice and beans and my family loved it! Followed directions but I omitted the meat.

This recipe was great! I tried using the Goya jar sofrito the first time making this, doubled the sazon, and omitting the bacon, and I have to say, it didn't come out that good. I also used the la preferida rice, which I don't think worked well.

I really wanted to make this recipe good so the second time making this, I used Goya Golden Canilla Rice, made my own sofrito (green pepper, cubanelle pepper, red bell pepper, white onion, tomato, garlic, salt, pepper and lots of cilantro all in the food processor) and I omitted the tomato paste, bacon, put a little less cumin, doubled the sazon and added a little bit of goya adobo seasoning.

I opened the lid only once during cooking, and that was in a little under 20 minutes and gave it a quick stir. I covered it for about 10 more minutes and it was ready! It came out delicious! Night and day difference from the first time and I think it was mainly due to the homemade sofrito. The jar one sucked! Also, the canilla rice made a difference.

Made this recipe after reading all the comments. I decided to go get the canilla par boiled rice and made my own sofrito. I had some spicy olives in the frig and used those. This was awesome. My daughter, who is very picky had seconds. Easy and wonderful.

Very good!

This came out really good, thanks!