Red beans
Green olives
Salt pepper
1 tbl brine
olive oil
bay leaves
½ cu sofrito
rice
Prepare beans, soak w/ bay leaves, simmer 2 hours. Cover bottom of pan w/olive oil, add ½ cu sofrito to hot oil and cook water out of sofreto. Add 12 green olives w/2 tbl brine salt (quite a bit) black pepper. Put beans into hot pan, add uncooked rice, add bean liquid, add “caldo” broth. 2 fingers of liquid over rice, cook until rice is seen, lower hear, mix & cover for 20 min or longer.
