Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jollof rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. Jollof rice, or jollof (/ dʒ ə ˈ l ɒ f /), also known as benachin in Wolof ('one pot'), is a one-pot rice dish popular in many West African countries such as The Gambia, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Togo and Mali.

Jollof Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Jollof Rice is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jollof rice using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Jollof Rice:

1. Prepare 3-4 cups rice
2. Make ready Beef
3. Make ready Stock
4. Get Scotch bonnet
5. Take Onion
6. Prepare Fresh tomatoes
7. Prepare Tomato paste
8. Make ready Ginger & garlic paste
9. Get cubes Seasoning
10. Get Curry and thyme
11. Make ready Vegetables
12. Make ready Veg. Oil
13. Take 1 tsp salt

Stir in the tomato puree and add the curry powder, garlic powder, ginger, dried herbs, and crushed bouillon cubes. 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. The classic version is cooked with long-grain rice (Uncle Ben's/Carolina's) and seasoned with Nigerian-style curry powder and dried thyme.

Steps to make Jollof Rice:

1. Assemble all your ingredients. Wash and parboil rice. Set aside
2. Season and fry your meat and set aside. Add more oil to the same pan. Sauté you onions and add you garlic paste.
3. Add your blended tomatoes, onion and pepper mix. Cover and cook until the moisture has dried up
4. Add tomato paste and fry. Curry and thyme
5. Add half the stock, put in your meats, seasoning cover and allow it to cook and absorb some flavor. Then remove and set aside
6. Add the remaining beef stock. Pour in the parboiled rice, if the stock is not enough, add more water enough to cook the rice.
7. Just when d water is about to drain off, add in you green peas
8. Add the remaining veggies. Cover, cook and let simmer for some minutes before serving
9. Ready to serve! Enjoy

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. It is quite easy to prepare if you follow the simple steps.

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