Jollof Rice is a very palatable West African Rice recipe.
In Wolof language, it is referred to as Benachin.
Preparing this dish is not a difficult task as you can conveniently cook this in your house.
The basic ingredients required are rice, fresh tomatoes, concentrated tinned tomato, vegetable oil, onion, salt, red pepper, meat, spices and stock cube.
Blend the fresh tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic and ginger together and set aside.
Before I cook my jollof rice, I start by Parboiling the raw rice and then setting it aside.
The basic steps involve heating up vegetable oil to fry the sliced onions, tomatoes, pepper, adding stock.
This is followed by cooking the rice in the meat's broth with the tomato mixture so as to absorb all the liquid.
The tomatoes give the rice a characteristic colourful appearance which makes it very eye-catching and mouth-watering.
It can be served with salad, fried plantain, fried chicken, beef or fish.
In Wolof language, it is referred to as Benachin.
Preparing this dish is not a difficult task as you can conveniently cook this in your house.
The basic ingredients required are rice, fresh tomatoes, concentrated tinned tomato, vegetable oil, onion, salt, red pepper, meat, spices and stock cube.
Blend the fresh tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic and ginger together and set aside.
Before I cook my jollof rice, I start by Parboiling the raw rice and then setting it aside.
The basic steps involve heating up vegetable oil to fry the sliced onions, tomatoes, pepper, adding stock.
This is followed by cooking the rice in the meat's broth with the tomato mixture so as to absorb all the liquid.
The tomatoes give the rice a characteristic colourful appearance which makes it very eye-catching and mouth-watering.
It can be served with salad, fried plantain, fried chicken, beef or fish.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of rice
- 1kg chicken
- 1 garlic, ginger & pepper
- 2 bell peppers
- 1/2 kg fresh tomatoes
- 1 tinned tomatoes
- 1 stock cube
- Salt to taste
- Vegetable oil
- 2 sliced onions
Instructions:
- Wash chicken and season with onions, garlic, ginger, stock cube and salt.
- Cook the seasoned chicken until tender then fry in a deep fryer until golden brown.
- Wash rice and cook for 5 mins to parboil then set aside.
- Blend fresh tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic, ginger and red pepper.
- Slightly heat up vegetable oil in a saucepan.
- Stir in sliced onions and blended tomatoes and allow to fry until the water has dried up.
- Then add the concentrated tinned tomatoes and salt to taste.
- Add the chicken broth and allow to boil.
- Once the water is boiling, you can then add the rice stir and cover pot to cook until done.
- Ensure that the water/chicken broth level is proportionate to the quantity of rice.
- Once the rice is done, stir properly and serve with fried chicken.
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