How to Make Gallo Pinto | Recipe | Market District

Start by preparing the ingredients for gallo pinto: diced onion, diced celery, diced red pepper, minced cilantro, black beans, and cooked rice.

Choose a hot sauce, preferably a sweeter one like Pickapeppa sauce, avoiding vinegar-based sauces.

Heat a little oil in a pan to start the cooking process.

Add the diced onions, celery, and red pepper to the pan and sweat them for a few minutes to pull out their natural sugars.

After about three minutes, check the vegetables; they should be getting lighter and almost translucent, indicating that the sugars are being released.

Add the cooked rice and black beans to the pan and let them cook for about three to five minutes until warmed through.

After five minutes, the rice and beans should have melded together and taken on a darker color from the black beans.

Add about a tablespoon of the Pickapeppa sauce to the mixture for flavor.

Finish by adding a good helping of minced cilantro, which should be added last to keep it fresh and bright, but will still cook a little to release its flavor.

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