Cooking with Bosch and St. Jude: Santi’s Rice and Chicken a la Mexicana

Bosch home appliances and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® share a strong commitment to improving lives. With our ‘Invented for Life’ cornerstone, Bosch is committed to enhancing lives through the high quality, performance and innovation of our appliances. Our partnership with St. Jude continues to build upon this commitment and we are honored to support St. Jude in their mission of: Finding cures. Saving Children. The following dish is another recipe in our Cooking with St. Jude series that spotlights St. Jude patients and their favorite recipes.

In early 2019, Santiago came home from school and told his parents, Nancy and Diego, that his leg hurt. At first, they thought perhaps he fell and twisted his knee, but the pain not only continued, it grew worse. Tests soon revealed Santiago had Philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which means it’s more difficult to treat. Santiago started treatment at a hospital in Iowa, but his cancer did not go into remission. His doctors recommended he undergo a bone marrow transplant and referred him to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.

“St. Jude is a ray of hope for my son,” said Diego, who was Santiago’s stem cell donor. “We are grateful to St. Jude, that Santiago’s doctors have such humanity and great strength of character.”

For the Tomato Sauce:
2 tomatoes quartered
¼ onion quartered
1 garlic clove
1 cup water
1 tablespoon Knorr® chicken bouillon For the Rice:
⅛ cup vegetable oil
2 cups of white rice
¼ onion finely diced
1 garlic clove finely minced
1 tablespoon Knorr® chicken bouillon
pinch powder cumin
1 ½ cups water

For the Rice:
⅛ cup vegetable oil
2 cups of white rice
¼ onion finely diced
1 garlic clove finely minced
1 tablespoon Knorr® chicken bouillon
pinch powder cumin
1 ½ cups water

For the Chicken:
Whole chicken (with skin)
1 cup of oil
1 tsp of black pepper
1/2 tsp of paprika
Pinch of salt
1 jalapeño
1 tomato
½ of onion

To Make the Tomato Sauce:

• Add the tomatoes, onion, garlic, water, and bouillon to a blender.
• Blend until smooth.
• Set aside until ready to use.

To Cook the Rice:

• Wash rice and drain it.
• Heat oil in a large stock pot.
• Add the rice.
• Stir constantly until it begins to toast. About 5 minutes.
• 4 minutes after, add the onion.
• Do not stop stirring, or the rice will burn.
• Look for a golden color in the rice.
• Add the garlic, bouillon, cumin, water, and tomato sauce.
• Stir to combine.
• Cover and cook for 12 minutes on medium heat (do not stir).
• Turn the heat off.
• Let rest for 5 minutes with the lid still on.
• The tomato sauce will have come to the top.
• Uncover and mix to combine. Serve.

To Cook the Chicken:

• Cut your whole chicken in pieces.
• Warm up one cup of oil.
• Add chicken, and cook at medium heat.
• When chicken is starting to brown add black pepper, paprika, and salt. Stir.
• Add one cut jalapeño, one tomato in cubes and onion in slices.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent, and we won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – so they can focus on helping their child live. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook (facebook.com/stjude) and following us on Twitter (@stjude).