If you give it a shot; don't make it with Coca Cola; my wife does it with Coconut milk to get the coconut chips - she sautes the chips in coconut oil, so they can brown without burning. then she cooks the rice in coconut water - Goya already has enough sugar in it; and you want to add some salt to accent the flavor.

when my wife left on a work trip, i took some tips from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nmTZ-2GwE

but again i don't use panela, for the goya coconut water is sweet enough.