How to Prepare Favorite Nigerian Jollof Rice

Nigerian Jollof Rice.

Hello everybody, hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, nigerian jollof rice. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Nigerian Jollof Rice is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It's appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it's quick, it tastes yummy. Nigerian Jollof Rice is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have nigerian jollof rice using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Nigerian Jollof Rice:

1. {Make ready 3 cups of Rice.
2. {Prepare 8 of Fresh Tomatoes.
3. {Make ready 4 of habanero pepper.
4. {Get 3 of medium-sized onions, 2 diced.
5. {Take 3 cloves of garlic, minced.
6. {Prepare 1 of small ginger.
7. {Get 2 of cooking spoon of oil.
8. {Take 2 sachet of tomato paste.
9. {Prepare 1 teaspoon of curry.
10. {Take 1 teaspoon of thyme.
11. {Take 1 of stock cube.
12. {Make ready 1 tablespoon of chicken seasoning powder.
13. {Take 2 tablespoon of ground crayfish.
14. {Make ready to taste of Salt.
15. {Make ready of Protein of choice; beef, chicken, fish etc. (I'm using Fish).
16. {Get of Extras.
17. {Take 1 of onions, sliced.
18. {Get 1 of hard tomato, sliced.

Steps to make Nigerian Jollof Rice:

1. First start by steaming the fish with salt, stock cube and some diced onions to get out the stock. Blend the tomatoes, pepper, ginger and one onions. Then parboiled the rice, wash it and set aside..
2. In a clean pot, add the vegetable oil, fry the fish and set aside..
3. In that same oil, add the remaining diced onions and minced garlic, curry, thyme and sautée for few minutes..
4. Add the tomato paste, stir for some time, add the blended tomato and pepper, add the stockcube, the chicken seasoning powder, some salt, mix and leave to cook on a medium heat..
5. When the water dries up, you'll know this when the oil separates from the tomato and it starts sticking to the pot, add the ground crayfish and the stock (from cooking the fish)..
6. Add the parboiled rice, mix this very well and add more water to be a bit above the level of rice..
7. Check for salt and add more if needed, cover up the pot and cook till the water dries up..
8. Add the sliced onions and tomato, turn the rice very well, cover the pot and turn off the heat..
9. Serve while still warm with your favourite protein (beef, chicken, turkey, fish etc) and side dressings (fried plantain, coleslaw, salad etc)..
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