Gallo pinto

  • Vegan
  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for breakfast

Less suited for lunch, for dinner.

Costa Rican rice with black beans, onion and fresh coriander in one pot.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,700 g

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Ingredients

  • 350 gRice, white, long-grain, regular, raw, unenriched
  • 500 gBeans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt
  • 160 gOnions, raw
  • 25 gCoriander (cilantro) leaves, raw
  • 25 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 700 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 4 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Rinse rice, add 700 g water and cook covered at 90 °C for 18 minutes; rest 5 minutes.
  2. Chop onion and fry in oil at 170 °C for 5 minutes.
  3. Add beans, rice and salt and fry while stirring for 5 minutes.
  4. Stir in coriander and divide into four portions.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
2,228.3 kcal
Protein
71.5 g
Fat
30.3 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
414.2 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
51.5 g
Saturated fatty acids
4.8 g
Sodium
1,619.2 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
4 g

Per serving

Energy
557.1 kcal
Protein
17.9 g
Fat
7.6 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
103.6 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
12.9 g
Saturated fatty acids
1.2 g
Sodium
404.8 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
131.1 kcal
Protein
4.2 g
Fat
1.8 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
24.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
3 g
Saturated fatty acids
0.29 g
Sodium
95.2 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.24 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains none of the 14 main allergens.

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal