Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, jollof rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jollof rice is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine 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 get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have jollof rice using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Jollof rice:
- Make ready 4 cups rice
- Make ready 8 tablespoonfuls of oil
- Make ready 5 red peppers
- Take 6 Scotch bonnets
- Get 3 medium size onions
- Prepare 4 medium size tomatoes
- Make ready 3 dry bay leaves
- Take to taste Salt
- Take 3 maggi signature jollof
- Take 1 tablespoonful curry powder
- Make ready 1 tablespoonful crayfish
- Make ready 1 teaspoonful thyme
- Get 5 green peppers
- Prepare 5 garlic
- Make ready 1 fresh ginger
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. The Nigerian jollof rice is made with parboiled rice. The Nigerian jollof rice is often served as a side dish for meats or fish.
Steps to make Jollof rice:
- I gather all the ingredients like this
- I parboiled rice the usual way as you can see in the picture below
- Using a clean pot, I pour oil and put on fire and I added some grated onions
- I blended tomatoes, red peppers and scotch bonnet together and pour the purée into the oil and allow it to cook until the oil sits on top of the purée like this
- I then added my maggi signature jollof, curry, thyme, crayfish, grated ginger and garlic, grounded bay leaves, salt and a cup of water, cover the pot for 2 minutes
- Then I added the parboiled rice and mix all to combine like this
- Cover with foil paper to retain all the steam for the rice to be soft for about 10_15minutes
- Finally, I added some sliced onions, green peppers and red peppers and stir finally for everything to be combined like this
- After 2 minutes, I off the heat and plate my jollof as you can see below
Often, the chicken or other kind of meat is already included in the dish. I love Jollof rice so when I tasted the final product of this particular recipe I was thoroughly View image. Jollof Rice. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Jollof rice is Nigeria's national dish. In order to prepare it, rice is cooked in a rich tomato sauce so that it The most common ingredients found in jollof rice include rice, tomatoes, tomato paste, onions.
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