Best Rice And Beans Jollof Recipe. Local Rice. How To Cook Rice And Bean With Mackerel @Oge Anyaoku

mackerel

🥗Healthier: grilled chicken

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Canned tuna is often less expensive and still provides protein.

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Canola oil is a cost-effective alternative with a similar cooking profile.

Pick through 3 cups of beans to remove any stones and rinse them.

Add hot water to the beans and allow them to pre-boil for about 5 minutes.

Drain the water from the beans, rinse them again, and return them to the pot.

Add chopped onion to the beans and enough hot water to cook them until they are 80% cooked, then cover the pot.

While the beans are cooking, defrost the frozen fish under running water for about 5 minutes.

Wash the fish and season it with chopped onion, curry powder, thyme, and salt.

Steam the fish for about 5 minutes, stirring gently to avoid breaking it.

Heat vegetable oil in a pan and fry the fish until golden brown and crispy.

In the same pan, add chopped onion and fry for about 2 minutes until fragrant.

Add ginger and garlic paste to the onions and fry for an additional 2 minutes.

Add bay leaves, dry thyme, and curry powder, and fry for another 2 minutes.

Add tomato paste to the pan and fry until it loses its tangy taste, about 5 minutes.

Blend fresh tomatoes and Scotch Bonnet pepper with a little water until smooth, then add to the pan.

Cook the tomato mixture until most of the water evaporates, indicated by bubbles of oil on top.

Season the tomato mixture with curry powder, dry thyme, all-purpose seasoning, crayfish powder, and salt, and fry for an additional 3 minutes.

Remove some of the sauce if it seems too much, then return it later if needed for color.

Check the beans; they should be 80% cooked and soft but not mushy.

Parboil the rice by soaking it in hot water or rinsing it in cold water after soaking, then add it to the pot with the beans.

Combine the rice with the beans and sauce, mixing well.

Add the stock from the fish and continue cooking until everything is well combined and cooked through.

Add the fried fish back into the pot before serving.

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