Colombian Stew & Arroz Amarillo – Whole30, AIP
A classic Colombian Stew & Arroz Amarillo seasoned with homemade Sazon seasoning (think Goya) made Whole30 compliant, with an AIP option.
It’s not often we have metric butt tons of leftover roasted meats on hand…we eat everything in sight pretty much within a couple of days.
That’s what happens when you need 99.9999999% of your meals to be prepared from scratch. Food intolerances can be greedy biotches like that, ya heard?
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Leftover champ
Here’s a great Whole30 and AIP Instant Brisket Pot recipe that I’ve made a million times for my family and my clients.
It lends loads of leftovers. Unless you eat it all that meat in one sitting. But I’d be worried if you did. Take care of your liver, man.
When we do have leftover roasted beef, chicken or pork though, this Colombian Stew is that meat’s hero. Dun dun dun! Here I come to save your MEAT! (groan)
Add in onion, carrot, potato or sweet potato or rutabaga or turnip even (depending on what you tolerate) and some homemade Sazon spice and BOOM CHIKA BOOM-BOOM.
(“Umm, the saying doesn’t go like that, honey.”)
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Sazon for flavor
Sazon tastes like one of those Goya seasonings, but you get to control the ingredients. I mention this in a lot of my posts because it’s important to know exactly what’s going into your body.
Conventional spice blends can contain stuff like cane or GMO sugar, anti-caking agents, corn products like starch and maltodextrin (eww, Monsanto, get out of my kitchen, bruh), and demon spawn.
Don’t eat demon spawn. It’s bad for your gut. I think.
You’ll even have extra Sazon left over to store and add to eggs, soups, barbequed meats, or use as an intoxicatingly aromatic dry shampoo. OK don’t do that last one.
Simmer, serve, slurp
Simmer, simmer it down then pile on cilantro and squirty-squirt some lemon over the whole thang.
It’s good. It’s stew. Eat it.
With the yellow rice which is not REALLY rice but actually vegetables.
Keep the faux rice a bit al-dente, or you’ll be cursing me as you slurp mush and shake your spoon-in-hand fist at the sky, shouting, “THIS IS NOT FAUX RICE, SAMANTHA!!”
Enjoy. 😉
Colombian Stew & Arroz Amarillo
Ingredients
STEW
- 1 Tb refined coconut oil (for coconut-free, sub lard)
- 1/2 small red onion diced
- 4 medium carrots diced
- 1 lb leftover cooked, torn meat such as pork, chicken or beef
- 2 cups bone broth
- 1 tsp homemade SAZON SEASONING for AIP, see AIP SAZON variation
- 1/4 tsp ground cumin for AIP, omit
- 1/4 tsp Himalayan salt
- 1 Tb tomato paste for AIP, sub 2 tsp pumpkin puree + 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 medium potato peeled and chopped (for AIP and, sub rutabaga)
- 1/8 bunch fresh cilantro chopped, plus more for garnish
- lemon wedges for serving if desired
SAZON SEASONING (makes a small batch that can be stored for future uses)
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground achiote
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Himalayan salt
- 3/4 tsp ground oregano
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
AIP SAZON SEASONING (makes a small batch that can be stored for future uses)
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp ground oregano
- 1/2 tsp ginger powder
- 1 tsp safflower petals
- 1 tsp Himalayan salt
SQUASH RICE
- 2 medium summer squash finely grated
- 1 Tb butter for AIP, sub refined coconut oil or lard
- 1/4 tsp homemade SAZON SEASONING
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a lidded medium to large Dutch oven over medium heat, then add the onions and carrots. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until beginning to brown.
- Add in the meat, broth, seasonings, tomato paste, potato and cilantro and stir well. Cover with lid, reduce heat to just under medium, and cook for 20 minutes or until potatoes are cooked through.
- While stew is cooking, make the SQUASH RICE: You can either microwave the shredded squash for 4 minutes, then stir in the fat and seasoning -or- sauté the squash in the oil over medium heat in a skillet for 2 minutes, then stir in seasoning. Set aside.
- Serve stew in bowls aside a scoop of the squash rice, with chopped cilantro on top and a lemon wedge on the side if desired.
