Nigerian rice and beans Jollof
Nigerian rice and beans Jollof is a combination of rice and beans cooked in a tomato stew.
Ingredients
- Meat
- 2 cups rice
- 1 cup beans
- 350 g onions
- 250 g tomatoes
- 70 g tatashe (Paprika pepper)
- 100 g shombo (cayenne pepper)
- scotch bonnet (fresh pepper)
- ½ small onions sliced
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup tomato paste
- 4 seasoning cubes
- salt
- 2 tablespoons ground dry crayfish
Instructions
- Wash meat, place in a pot and season with salt, seasoning cubes and sliced onions. Cook until tender.
- While the meat is cooking, wash beans, place in a pot, add enough water to cover the beans up to 2 inches. Set over medium-high heat.
- Boil beans until soft, (Beans should still be whole but crushes when pressed). Drain and set aside both the beans and the liquid.
- Wash rice, place in a pot, add enough water to cover the rice.
- Boil rice until about halfway cooked. Drain into a sieve, rinse in cold water and set aside.
- While rice and beans are cooking, grind onions, tomato, tatashe, shombo and scotch bonnet together.
- Pour vegetable oil into a clean dry pot over medium heat.
- When hot, fry the cooked meat. Drain in a plate.
- Add sliced onions to the oil, fry until soft.
- Add tomato paste, mix and fry for one minutes.
- Pour in the pureed tomato, stir and fry until dry (oil is floating on top).
- Crush and add seasoning cubes and crayfish.
- Add some meat and beans stock, enough to be at the same level as the rice and beans when added. Stir, taste and add salt.
- Cover and bring to a boil then stir in the rice and beans (The stock should be about the same level as the rice and beans, you can always add more as it drys).
- Cover tightly and cook until very little water is remaining, stir and reduce heat to very low.
- Cook until water has been absorbed.
- Leave partially opened to dry out for about 5 minutes.
- Stir and serve.
Notes
- Serve with a side of fried plantains, steamed green (amaranth) or Smoked fish with green (amaranth) vegetable etc.
- You can replace vegetable oil with palm oil.
