Jollof Rice Recipe

Another great recipe from Classic Nigerian Food Recipes by Michael Toye Faleti.

INGREDIENTS

Serves 4  
- 500g Long grain rice 
- 3 cooking spoons Margarine /Vegetable oil 
- 2 Large Onions 
- 6 or more Red chilli peppers 
- 3 large Fresh tomatoes 
- 3 tablespoons Tomato purée  
- 1 clove Garlic/ginger 
- Bay leaves 
- Thyme 
- 3 Maggi cubes 
- 500g Chicken 
- 100g Boiled seasoned snails 
- 40g Cooked green peas  
- 2 Smoked stock fish (optional) 
- 4 pieces of Crabs or 50g Shrimps 
- A bunch of Plantain bananas 
- 500ml water 


METHOD


1. Melt the butter or pour 1 cooking spoon of vegetable oil in a deep cooking pan, add sliced onion till slightly brown, add grated garlic, tomato purée, sliced red chilli  pepper and small grated ginger, stir altogether,  add other seasoning – leave to fry for 3mins then add water. 


2. Add the rice and bay leaf (optional) to above. 


3. In another cooking pan boil the shrimps, crab, and snails together, add a bit of seasoning till cooked then add or separately boil green peas inside for 2mins. 


4. Season the chicken and grill with onions, a bit of garlic and ginger.


5. Check the rice, if almost done, or bring to boil, add the shrimps, green peas either to garnish or to add to rice depending on you. 


6  Melt small cooking spoon of oil into frying pan, slice a bit of onion, chopped red chilli pepper, a little tomato purée, add the snail, crab, smoke stock fish and grilled chicken. Stir, add seasoning and fry for 10 minutes to make sauce.  


7. Check rice if well cooked. Softly stir up from the  root with a wooden spoon because of the sauce settled at the bottom. If done, garnish with cooked and boiled green peas, fried plantain and the sauce. Serve with your favorite beverage. 


TIP:  Grate instead of chopping the garlic and ginger into the dish in Step 1 for a sweeter unique flavor to the dish.

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