Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, jollof rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jollof rice is a very common dish prepared in many African countries and each recipe differs I specifically prepare the Nigerian party jollof rice which I still feel is one of the best recipes out there. "We don't say a dish is spicy — we say it has pepper." Yewande Komolafe is a recipe writer who grew up in Lagos and found herself searching for the heat and. Nigerian Jollof Rice or Jellof rice is a rich and incredibly tasty west African one-pot Meal. When cooking Jellof rice, building a flavor base is very important.

Jollof Rice is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Jollof Rice is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have jollof rice using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Jollof Rice:

1. Make ready Rice
2. Prepare Tomatoes
3. Get tatashe
4. Make ready pepper
5. Get Onions
6. Get cube stock
7. Get to taste salt
8. Prepare veg oil
9. Prepare oregano
10. Get garlic
11. Prepare crushed ginger

This is why you will always see it in parties. The Nigerian jollof rice is made with parboiled rice. The Nigerian jollof rice is often served as a side dish for meats or fish. Often, the chicken or other kind of meat is already included in the dish.

Instructions to make Jollof Rice:

1. Perboil rice with a lot of water, once its almost tender, wash properly and drain and set aside; Wash tomatoes, tatashe, onions, garlic and ginger and blend, heat up frying pan and fry with veg oil for 20mins and set aside
2. Heat up pot, add vegetable oil, add a dash of salt, add in tomatoes mix then stir and fry for about 5 - 7mins; Stir continuously; add in oregano and stock cube, stir then taste to confirm that your mix taste complete
3. Gently add in rice, and mix together properly, allow it cook till rice is tender and water all dried up
4. Stir in mix veg in a frying pan with little veg oil and add salt and stock cube and turn off heat so you can have a crunchy mix veg then pour the mix into the jollof rice and stir
5. Then remove from heat and serve with grilled chicken and fried plantain

Adapted by The New York TImes. The chef Tunde Wey is based in New Orleans, but he was born in Nigeria, where jollof rice is a well-loved dish. Ghanaian Jollof Rice By Tei Hammond. Add the rice, mixed vegetables, and water. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and cover the pot with foil and a lid.

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