Jollof rice
Jollof rice

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, jollof rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cook onion in oil over medium-low heat until translucent. Cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, stir in water, and add chicken pieces.

Jollof rice is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Jollof rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have jollof rice using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Jollof rice:
  1. Take Rice
  2. Get Tomatoes
  3. Prepare Scotch bonnet pepper
  4. Make ready Onions
  5. Prepare Chilli pepper
  6. Prepare Chicken
  7. Prepare Peas
  8. Take Carrots
  9. Get Spices
  10. Prepare Seasoning

Add the chopped carrots next and saute for a minute with little salt. Add the tomato paste, tomatoes along with curry powder, bay leaf & thyme. 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.

Instructions to make Jollof rice:
  1. Cut chicken into tiny parts wash and season it.
  2. Cook the chicken keep the stock aside and fry.
  3. Perboil the rice for 10mins and set aside
  4. Blend onions tomatoes and the two peppers
  5. Dice onions and saute in oil and margarine until fragnant. Add garlic and ginger. Add blended tomatoes. Fry until well cooked.
  6. Add chicken stock and some more water. Add spices, salt and seasoning. I used knorr, maggi and onga
  7. Add rice and allow to cook. Then add peas and salad with fried chicken pieces. It is ready to eat.
  8. I served mine with salad

The classic version is cooked with long-grain rice (Uncle Ben's/Carolina's) and seasoned with Nigerian-style curry powder and dried thyme. Parboil the rice using the method detailed in parboiling rice for cooking jollof rice. Rinse the parboiled rice and put in a sieve to drain. Pour the chicken stock and the tomato stew into a sizeable pot and leave to boil. Add the drained parboiled rice, curry powder, salt and pepper to taste.

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