Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, jollof rice, fried okra & spiced tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jollof Rice, Fried Okra & Spiced Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Jollof Rice, Fried Okra & Spiced Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Adding okra elevates the familiar jollof rice to new flavour heights. Make the jollof with brown rice, and you have a high-fibre, nutritional winner. Jollof rice is a spicy African rice dish that cooks in one pan, uses lots of veg and can be a veggie main or a side to some simply baked chicken.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have jollof rice, fried okra & spiced tofu using 18 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Jollof Rice, Fried Okra & Spiced Tofu:
- Prepare 4 cup rice
- Get 6 fresh tomatoes
- Take 1 bell pepper
- Prepare 2 cup vegetable stock
- Make ready 1 large onion
- Get 2 red chillis
- Prepare 1 tbsp chipotle paste
- Get 2 cm ginger
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic
- Get 200 g okra
- Get 300 g firm tofu
- Get 1 tbsp curry powder
- Take 1 tsp nutmeg
- Prepare 2 tsp smoked paprika
- Prepare 5 sprigs thyme
- Prepare 1 tbsp cumin
- Make ready 1 tbsp cornstarch
- Make ready to taste Salt
Jollof rice traditionally consists of rice, cooking oil, vegetables such as tomato, onion, red pepper, garlic, ginger and scotch bonnet. To enhance the colour of the dish, tomato paste (purée) is added. As seasoning spices, salt, seasoning/stock cubes (a blend of flavour enhancers, salt, nutmeg and herbs), curry powder and dried thyme are used. To complement the dish, red and white meats (I.e.
Steps to make Jollof Rice, Fried Okra & Spiced Tofu:
- Chop the onion, pepper, tomatoes, chilli, ginger & garlic
- Slice okra lengthwise, coat in oil, cornstarch, cumin & paprika
- Coat the tofu in oil and cumin
- Blend ingredients, and add the chipotle paste
- Heat some oil in a pot, and gently fry the paste.
- Add curry powder, nutmeg, and tomato puree. Cook for a couple more minutes
- Add the rice and cook for a couple of minutes
- Add the stock, thyme and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer. Cook for about 15/20 minutes
- While the rice is cooking, heat some oil in a skillet and fry the okra
- Do the same for the tofu
- Once it's all nicely cooked, serve!
African recipes are always a delight. If you are familiar with African recipes, you will know that rich foods like Jollof Rice, African fried rice, Okra soup and more are very dear to our hearts. I have also included a compilation of African's favorite snacks like puff puff, Buns, Chin Chin, and Fish Rolls. Cassava (yuca) leaf stew prepared with a medley of meat and served with rice. Assorted Meat Asun Ata Dindin Beans Beef Bitter leaf boiled plantain Boiled Yam Chicken Edikaikong Efo Riro Egusi Ewedu fish Fresh Fish Fried Fish fried plantain Fried rice Goat Meat isiewu jollof rice moi-moi Nkwobi ogbono Oha Okra Onugbu Pepper Soup Plantain Spinach stock fish Suya Swallow tilapia fish Vegetable White Rice yam Yamarita Hey people, its nearly Christmas time!
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