Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, nigerian jollof rice. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The Nigerian rice recipe discussed here is the classic Nigerian Jollof Rice prepared at parties. This is the most popular Nigerian rice recipe. This is why you will always see it in parties.
Nigerian Jollof Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Nigerian Jollof Rice is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have nigerian jollof rice using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nigerian Jollof Rice:
- Make ready 3 cups Rice
- Prepare 8 Fresh Tomatoes
- Make ready 4 habanero pepper
- Make ready 3 medium-sized onions, 2 diced
- Get 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 1 small ginger
- Prepare 2 cooking spoon of oil
- Prepare 2 sachet tomato paste
- Take 1 teaspoon curry
- Get 1 teaspoon thyme
- Get 1 stock cube
- Make ready 1 tablespoon chicken seasoning powder
- Make ready 2 tablespoon ground crayfish
- Take to taste Salt
- Take Protein of choice; beef, chicken, fish etc. (I'm using Fish)
- Make ready Extras
- Get 1 onions, sliced
- Take 1 hard tomato, sliced
Because Jollof Rice is Bae, and much loved South of the Sahara and along the coast of West Africa. Spiced and stewed in a flavorful tomato broth, it is everything from "everyday" to celebration. The classic version is cooked with long-grain rice (Uncle Ben's/Carolina's) and seasoned with Nigerian-style curry powder and dried thyme. Served with fried, ripe plantains which we call.
Steps to make Nigerian Jollof Rice:
- First start by steaming the fish with salt, stock cube and some diced onions to get out the stock. - Blend the tomatoes, pepper, ginger and one onions. - Then parboiled the rice, wash it and set aside.
- In a clean pot, add the vegetable oil, fry the fish and set aside.
- In that same oil, add the remaining diced onions and minced garlic, curry, thyme and sautée for few minutes.
- Add the tomato paste, stir for some time, add the blended tomato and pepper, add the stockcube, the chicken seasoning powder, some salt, mix and leave to cook on a medium heat.
- When the water dries up, you'll know this when the oil separates from the tomato and it starts sticking to the pot, add the ground crayfish and the stock (from cooking the fish).
- Add the parboiled rice, mix this very well and add more water to be a bit above the level of rice.
- Check for salt and add more if needed, cover up the pot and cook till the water dries up.
- Add the sliced onions and tomato, turn the rice very well, cover the pot and turn off the heat.
- Serve while still warm with your favourite protein (beef, chicken, turkey, fish etc) and side dressings (fried plantain, coleslaw, salad etc).
Looking for Nigerian Jollof rice recipe? Yes Eight! ( From classic Jollof rice, to the party Jollof rice all the way down to my favourite healthier lower-calorie Jollof rice). Alright, let's get started right away, we have a lot of cooking to do. Here's everything you need to make Nigerian Jollof Rice at home: Basic Equipment List. You don't need fancy equipment to make Jollof Rice at home!
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