Recipe: Delicious Jollof Rice

Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Jollof Rice. The carrots and peas are optional for jollof rice. And the chicken can be cooked seperately from the rice and the broth added in with the tomatoes. the chicken can go in at the end. The chef Tunde Wey is based in New Orleans, but he was born in Nigeria, where jollof rice is a well-loved dish The rice is cooked in a flavorful tomato and pepper purée; his version is vegan, and laced with chile heat.

Jollof Rice West African Jollof Rice is superb! I grew up eating this rice and every eaten at every party where the host is west african. Every west african country has its own version, however this is the best! You can cook Jollof Rice using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Jollof Rice

  1. Prepare 2 cup of Rice.
  2. It's of grilled chicken.
  3. You need 8 of fresh tomatoes.
  4. It's 9 of fresh Habanero Pepper dice.
  5. You need 2 of knorr cube.
  6. Prepare 1 of bulb onions.
  7. You need 1/2 cup of veg oil.
  8. Prepare to taste of salt.

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. 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.

Jollof Rice instructions

  1. Parboil water once it boiling hot turn off heat and pour the rice into the pot, let it rest for about 2 mins; stir and drain..
  2. Wash tomatoes, pepper, onion and blend proper; you can add garlic and ginger as well.
  3. Heat up pot add vegetable oil and stir in blended tomatoes and allow it cook for about 7 minutes, stir continuously for another 10minutes once the it looses the sour taste,.
  4. Add salt, bouillon cube and finally stir in the rice, add a little water or chicken stock if you have any, you will have to monitor it to keep adding water till the rice is tender..
  5. Once the rice is tender and water has dried out; turn off heat and serve while hot with fried plantain and grilled chicken.

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. 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.