Jollof rice and Plantain
Jollof rice and Plantain

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, jollof rice and plantain. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jollof rice and Plantain is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Jollof rice and Plantain is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Jollof rice is found throughout West Africa and is thought to be the origin of the Cajun dish, jambalaya. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper and serve the joffol with fried plantains and a crisp green salad. Jollof rice is a household staple, often accompanied by fried plantain.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jollof rice and plantain using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Jollof rice and Plantain:
  1. Take 3 fresh tomatoes
  2. Make ready Tomato paste
  3. Get Bell pepper (tattasai)
  4. Prepare Tarugu Groundnut oil
  5. Prepare Palm oil
  6. Prepare 2 Onions
  7. Prepare Garlic (optional)
  8. Prepare Seasonings
  9. Get Salt
  10. Get Curry and thyme
  11. Make ready Plantain

Jollof rice and fried plantainsMatt Taylor-Gross. SAVEUR kitchen assistant Yewande Komolafe, a native of Lagos, Nigeria, gave us her family's recipe for this celebratory rice dish. Nigerian Jollof Rice is probably the BEST jollof rice recipe in the world: rich and flavorful with a slight smokey taste that gives it its unique name as the Party Jollof Rice. This Party Jollof rice is quite easy to prepare and if you follow the basic recipe and the steps on this page , you can never go wrong.

Instructions to make Jollof rice and Plantain:
  1. Blend your fresh tomatoes, tattasai, tarugu and Onion together. Pound your garlic and keep aside
  2. Chop your other onion and keep aside.
  3. Put your pot on the fire and pour both groundnut oil and palm oil together and add small onion to fry it, then add your chopped onion and tomato paste and fry it for 1 minutes
  4. Add your grounded tomatoes and garlic, Cover the pot and allow it steam for some minutes and add water to boil
  5. Then add your seasonings, salt, curry and thyme
  6. Wash your rice and add it to your mixture and cover until it is Cook. And fry your plantain and put aside
  7. When the rice is done, serve it with plantain. You chose to eat with fried chicken or couslow.

Jollof rice is a popular rice dish in West African countries. It is one pot rice that is popularly served at wedding parties, birthday parties, naming ceremonies and Jollof rice is cooked in tomato sauce with spices. Mostly spicy jollof rice because Africans don't play with their peppers and heat however it can. jollof rice with chicken and fried plantain, west african cuisine isolated on white background. Jollof rice is probably my all time favourite dish. As a child, my mother cooked it every Sunday for lunch and so it's always had an air of something special to me.

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