For lunch last Wednesday, I went high with jollof rice and fried fish. I published a quick video of the recipe below but this post has detailed the instructions on the ingredients, quantities and the method of preparation. The basis of this recipe is similar to the one here on basmati jollof rice recipe. However, this one requires lesser ingredients and reduced cooking time. One thing I love about the jollof rice recipe is that it is pretty flexible! Once you have the core ingredients - tomatoes, rice, oil, salt then you can tweak it with whatever ingredients, spices, flavours you have at hand.
The fish also is quite easy to put together - once you've boiled it with the right tone of ingredients, then they are up for either deep frying or shallow frying. Sometimes I fry my fishes straight up without first boiling or steaming them. I only boil them whenever I know I'm gonna use the broth for preparing another dish especially rice. Well, this jollof rice and fried fish came together very well. So, this is one meal you can bank on anytime any day.
Short Video on Jollof Rice and Fried Fish Recipe!!!
The fish also is quite easy to put together - once you've boiled it with the right tone of ingredients, then they are up for either deep frying or shallow frying. Sometimes I fry my fishes straight up without first boiling or steaming them. I only boil them whenever I know I'm gonna use the broth for preparing another dish especially rice. Well, this jollof rice and fried fish came together very well. So, this is one meal you can bank on anytime any day.
Ingredients:
- Frying oil
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 fish (cut)
- 1 tbsp curry
- ½ tbsp thyme
- 125ml olive oil
- 1 onion (sliced)
- 6 dry bay leaves
- 2 Knorr stock cubes
- 3 cups long grain rice
- 85g concentrated tomato paste
- 200ml fresh tomatoes (blended & drained of excess water)
Instructions:
- Wash the long grain rice and add in a clean pot.
- Pour hot water into the pot of rice and parboil.
- Thoroughly wash the parboiled rice and drain in a sieve (set aside).
- Wash the fish and add in a pot then add water to cover the fish.
- Add onions, bay leaves, curry powder, salt, thyme and stock cubes.
- Stir properly and cook until done.
- Scoop out the fish from the broth and set the broth aside.
- Heat up the frying oil and fry the cooked fish until golden dry.
- Scoop out the fried fish from the hot oil and set aside.
- Slightly heat up the olive oil, add salt and sauté the onions.
- Add the blended fresh tomatoes, concentrated tomato paste and knorr stock cubes then stir.
- Continue frying and stirring the tomato mixture until slightly dry. ( B - Don't leave the tomato sauce to burn).
- Pour the fried tomato sauce into the fish broth then allow to boil together.
- Add the parboiled rice into the pot of boiling tomato sauce, stir properly and cook until done.
- Stir the cooked rice and then serve with the fried fish.
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