Puerto Rican Rice & Beans

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 2 tablespoons sofrito *see note below about finding/making sofrito
• 8 ounces tomato sauce
• 16 ounces kidney red or pink beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 packet coriander Sazón with, and Annatto, Culantro and Achiote
• 1 packet ham concentrate, I use Goya Jamón, optional
• dried oregano
• adobo
• black pepper
• 2 tablespoons pimento stuffed olives Manzanilla or Spanish
• 1/2 pound potatoes peeled and diced into large chunks
• cooked white rice for serving
• 3 green bell peppers large, deseeded and quartered
• 3 Spanish onions large, peeled and quartered
• 2 bags aji dulce a type of pepper
• 1 head garlic peeled
• 1/2 bunch recao aka culantro
• 1 bunch cilantro