Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, jollof risotto rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Baked Jambalaya Risotto with Andouille & Kale This autumn-inspired risotto is started on the stovetop, then it bakes in the oven for easy preparation. Add pinch of fresh grated nutmeg to risotto, if desired. Jollof & Plantain Arancini (Risotto Balls) Jollof rice is a popular dish across Nigeria and the rest of West Africa and is made by steaming rice in a seasoned tomato and red pepper purée. Loved passionately by Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike, everyone will tell you their mum or aunty makes the best pot.
Jollof risotto rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Jollof risotto rice is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jollof risotto rice using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jollof risotto rice:
- Get 1 cup Aborio rice
- Make ready 2 cups Chicken stock
- Take 3 pieces Tatashe
- Get 5 pieces Tomatoes
- Prepare 5 pieces Rodo
- Get Onions 1 bulb
- Get 2 cloves Garlic
- Take 1 tsp Curry
- Get 1 tsp Thyme
- Make ready 1 tbsp Italian seasonings
- Prepare 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
- Make ready 1/2 cup Mozarella cheese
- Take 1 tbsp Chef stone secret spice
- Prepare 1 tsp Black pepper
- Make ready 1 plantain
- Take 3 tiger prawn
It is prepared throughout the region including in Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Cameroon as well as Mali. Jollof rice and chicken is usually the main dish at every celebration, bbq, and party and it is so easy to prepare. In my opinion, the secret to the perfect jollof rice is the slow cooking, that way the rice get cooked by steam and retains all the flavour without turning in risotto. Jollof rice is prepared from a tomato base sauce made up of blended tomatoes, onions, sweet bell peppers and chilli peppers, usually, scotch bonnet peppers.
Instructions to make Jollof risotto rice:
- Devin and wash the tiger prawn. Marinate with black pepper and salt and keep
- In a blender, blend together the peppers. In a sauce pot add the oil and fry the garlic and onions until fragrance, add the blended pepper and fry for 5mins.
- Add your herbs and spice and fry for another 3mins
- Add your rice and stir well into the pepper 2mins.
- Start adding your stock bit by bit, wait until the last water is absorbed before adding another. Continue to cook until rice is soft.
- Finish it by adding the Mozarella cheese. And remove from heat.
- In a girdle hot pan. Pan fry your tiger prawn for 5 mins per each side or until opaque in colour
- In a large wok blanch the plantain oil first before bringing the oil to 350oc and re-fry the plantain until crispy.
- To plate your food. Get a pasta dish and put your jollof risotto in the middle and assemble your prawn on it like a pyramid and butterfly the plantain by the side and vavavom.
In my opinion, the secret to the perfect jollof rice is the slow cooking, that way the rice get cooked by steam and retains all the flavour without turning in risotto. Jollof rice is prepared from a tomato base sauce made up of blended tomatoes, onions, sweet bell peppers and chilli peppers, usually, scotch bonnet peppers. To create the tomato base sauce, traditional recipes will blend the vegetables, then boil and simmer the resulting sauce to a paste-like consistency. It is by far and away West Africa's most readily available and consumed dish, also known as 'party rice' because of its frequent center-stage role at dinner party tables and banquets. Jollof rice traditionally consists of rice, cooking oil, vegetables such as tomato, onion, red pepper, garlic, ginger and scotch bonnet.
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