RICE & PEAS.

RICE & PEAS.

almost foolproof, really good rice, you can find the video for this here. This guy’s channel is the best on youtube for anything carribean, watch his stuff.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup peas, (pigeon peas, kidney beans or any red beans.)

  • 1.5 cups basmati rice.

  • 3 scallion, chopped.

  • 1/2 yellow onion, small dice.

  • 1 bay leaf.

  • 3 cloves.

  • 1/2 tbsp garlic powder.

  • 1 tsp allspice powder.

  • 6 sprigs thyme.

  • 1 tbsp ginger, grated.

  • 1 tbsp chicken bouillon.

  • 2 tbsp grated coconut.

  • 1 398mL can coconut milk.

  • 1 scotch bonnet pepper.

  • kosher salt.

  • 1 tbsp ghee or butter.

Equipment:

Yield:

  • ~3 cups rice and peas.

Execution:

  1. soak peas.

  • Soak the beans in double their volume in water overnight.

2. cook peas, cook rice.

  • Drain the beans, and discard the soaking liquid.

  • Add the beans, onion, ginger, garlic powder, allspice powder, ghee, bouillon, scallion, bay leaf, clove, scotch bonnet and thyme to a pot.

  • Add 2 cups of water and bring to a boil.

  • Reduce to low and simmer, cover with a lid and cook until the peas are 80-90% cooked.

  • Add the coconut milk, and season the liquid with salt until it tastes overly salted.

  • Wash the rice until the water runs clear.

  • Add the rice, boil, cover with a lid and reduce to low.

  • Let cook for 15 minutes.

  • Take off the heat and leave covered for 10 minutes.

  • Fluff the rice, remove any whole aromatics and serve.

suggested:

curry fish.