Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jollof rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jollof rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Jollof rice is something that I have loved my whole life.
Jollof rice is a very common dish prepared in many African countries and each recipe differs I specifically prepare the Nigerian party jollof rice which I still feel is one of the best recipes out there. "We don't say a dish is spicy — we say it has pepper." Yewande Komolafe is a recipe writer who grew up in Lagos and found herself searching for the heat and. Nigerian Jollof Rice or Jellof rice is a rich and incredibly tasty west African one-pot Meal. When cooking Jellof rice, building a flavor base is very important.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have jollof rice using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jollof rice:
- Make ready Rice
- Get Veg oil
- Take Grated pepper mix(Onions, scotch bonnet, garlic and tattashe)
- Prepare Tin tomatoes
- Take Spices
- Take cube Seasoning
- Prepare Salt
- Get Black pepper
- Prepare leaves Bay
- Take Curry
- Prepare Thyme
- Prepare Chicken
- Get Plantain
This is why you will always see it in parties. The Nigerian jollof rice is made with parboiled rice. The Nigerian jollof rice is often served as a side dish for meats or fish. Often, the chicken or other kind of meat is already included in the dish.
Instructions to make Jollof rice:
- Perboil rice and keep aside. (I don’t perboil my rice all the time, sometimes I just use it raw). Cook your chicken and fry. Keep stock aside.
- Grate your pepper and onions and put in a pot. Then add in tin tomatoes, bay leave and add oil. Fry on medium heat for 5 mins. Then add chicken stock and more water depending on the quantity of rice you are cooking. Once water has boiled, add in all your spices, seasoning cube, salt, curry and black pepper. Add parboiled rice and mix. Cover pot well and allow to cook for 10 mins. Then turn it and cover again. Do not turn continuously.
- Once it’s done, add onions and whatever veggies u like and cover and allow to steam on low heat for 5 mins. Turn off heat. Fry plantain and enjoy with your rice😋😋
- Check out my other recipe for my coslow recipe and serve with your rice. Enjoy😋🤤
Adapted by The New York TImes. The chef Tunde Wey is based in New Orleans, but he was born in Nigeria, where jollof rice is a well-loved dish. Ghanaian Jollof Rice By Tei Hammond. Add the rice, mixed vegetables, and water. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and cover the pot with foil and a lid.
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