Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, rice & peas. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Rice & Peas is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Rice & Peas is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have rice & peas using 9 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Rice & Peas:
- Get 3 cup Rice
- Take 1 cup Of tinned or fresh red peas (either kidney beans or pigeon peas)
- Make ready 5 clove Cloves of Garlic finely choppd
- Take 1 Uncut Scotch Bonnet pepper (1 jalapeño pepper may be used as a substitute)
- Make ready 1 cup Tin or cup of coconut milk
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt
- Get 1 tsp Black Pepper
- Take 2 Sprigs of Fresh Thyme (2 teaspoons of dried thyme may be ueed as a substitute)
- Prepare 3 Scallion (spring onions may be used as a substitute)
Instructions to make Rice & Peas:
- Cooking If you are using fresh peas (kidney beans) then wash these - - Pour on three cups of water and leave to soak overnight (nb - there is no need to do this if you are using tinned peas) - - Crush the garlic and add to seven cups of boiling water - - If you are using fresh peas add them now and boil for 45 minutes. - - You can test to see if the peas are cooked by crushing them against the lid of the pot. - - (If they crush easily, you are ready to move on to the next step) - - NB - If you are using tinned peas jest add them to the pot and move straight on to the next step. - - Add your coconut milk, rice, salt, black pepper and thyme to the mix. - - Crush the scallion (do not chop) and add this. - - Also add the uncut scotch bonnet pepper, nb - the pepper remains uncut so as to not make the rice spicy, just give it a subtle peppery flavour. - - The Rice and Peas should be ready after about 40 minutes (exact cooking time will depend on the brand of rice used). - - The Rice and Peas is now ready to serve!
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