Introduction
It's a blessed new day, Sunday, a day of the week to worship God with other congregations in my church. As my usual practice, I stepped out of the house at a few minutes to 8:00 am to attend the Sunday service at my Church. The first service was a great one, likewise, the Sunday school service. At 10:30 am, all services I attended finished and I headed home and about 11:00 am, I felt I should make my breakfast for the day.
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Jollof Rice
For Sunday breakfast, I chose to prepare Jollof rice all by myself, this is a popular delicacy in the Western part of Africa, talk of Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, and so on. Mostly, if rice is to be used for special occasions, it is prepared this way and it is more valuable as compared to using other forms of rice delicacy for the event. Today, I will walk you through how I made homemade Jollof Rice.
Ingredients
| Materials | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Long Grain Rice | 300g |
| Green Pea | 115g |
| Sweet Corn | 115g |
| Carrot | 130g |
| Seasonings | 2 cubes |
| Salt, Curry, Thyme | Added to taste |
| Fresh Pepper, Tomatoes, Onions | Adequate Mixture |
| Tomato Paste | 65g |
| Vegetable Oil | About 75g |
| Meat | As desired, I used Beef |
Now that we have listed the ingredients above, let's take a look at the pictures of them all in the set of pictures below.
Rice
Vegetable Oil, Seasonings, Salt, Curry, Thyme...
Green pea, Sweet corn, Carrot...
Fried Beef
In the last pictures shared above, I have just blended the pepper, tomatoes... mixture and the required quantity for the delicacy has been poured into the plate (note that: the quantity is just about 1/4 of the total blended pepper, tomatoes and onions mixture). Let's go into the preparation proper.
Preparation
- Pour the vegetable oil into the pot, allow it to be hot, and add the blended pepper mixture. In addition, the processed tomato paste is added.
- I added salt to taste. Add the seasoning cubes, curry, and thyme.
- Allow the mixture to be fried for about 10mins on medium cooking heat. After that, I added water into the pot of the mixture being fried and allowed it to boil, this takes about another 15mins.
- Now, I poured the washed rice into the boiling water and ensured that the water level is just around the rice level inside the pot.
- Allow it to cook for 20mins then add the green pea, sweet corn, and carrot.
Green pea, sweet corn, and carrot being added
The Jollof rice is ready, served on a plate with the beef on the top. The meat could have been the one that has been cooked in a stew, it also goes well but in this case, I chose to use it directly as fried.
Conclusion
It's always a great pleasure for me to cook my meals at home, and to be frank, I hardly use the restaurant for my meals, it's seldomly done if I have to. The delicacy shared in the piece can be enjoyed with chicken or any other meat of choice, fish, and so on, in addition, fried plantain can also be combined to fill the top of the rice. It's simple to make and quite cost-effective. Thanks for reading my food diary today and I hope you can try it out if you haven't before. See you some other time.
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@fredquantum
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Wow! I'm impressed with this explanation and I'm sure it tasted delicious but I don't know why I missed this for the past 7 days.
At least I would have gotten an invitation if I saw it earlier. 😆
Great job boss
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In fact, 10000 yards 😆
Yes, the food tasted delicious. You missed it till I've fully passed it out as excreta 😆.
Thanks for visiting, @patience90.
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😆😆😆😆😆
I won't miss it next time Mr husband material 10000 yards
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Okay 😆
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Good to know my professor is also a good chef, you did a great job there sir, but do well to call me to be a partaker of this next time.
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I will call you next to come around and have a taste of one I would make sometimes sooner 😆. Trust you are good today. Thanks for stopping by, @feyol55.
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This jellog rice looks appetizing @fredquantum I believe the taste matches??
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The taste was so great 😊. I spent a considerable amount of time getting that done, so it's a must it taste as it looks 😆. Thanks for stopping by, @ngozi996.
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Wow, dear friend how can I come and take my own meal.
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Lol... It's simple, where are you? And I guess you ain't far from an airport then I will tell you how to navigate your way down here 😆 😆. Thanks for visiting, @chukwu10.
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Oh I need my own share oh
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😆 😆
No problem, you can come around for it. Thanks for interacting, @goldenekpo.
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