Baked jollof rice
Baked jollof rice

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, baked jollof rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Oven Baked Jollof Rice - Here is another take on Jollof Rice, one of the most famous West Africans one pot meal. Simplicity, is what sets apart the stove top from the oven baked method of cooking. This jollof rice hack had me doing cat wheels in my kitchen.

Baked jollof rice is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Baked jollof rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook baked jollof rice using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked jollof rice:
  1. Prepare 4 cup rice
  2. Make ready 2 tbsp tomato paste
  3. Make ready 4 large tomatoes
  4. Prepare 2 fresh chilies
  5. Take 2 green bell pepper
  6. Get 4 onions
  7. Make ready 1 bay leaf
  8. Get Vegetable oil
  9. Get Salt and pepper
  10. Get 1 dash oregano
  11. Get 1 dash thyme
  12. Take 2 beef chili cube

Oven Baked Jollof Rice is the quintessential West African rice dish. Popular in many countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Senegal, and Sierra Leone, this one-pot rice dish is also known as Benachin. This easy Jollof Rice recipe and Instant pot Jollof Rice is a spiced tomato rice served all across West Africa. You can also try my baked jollof rice recipe or add veggies like in my sweetcorn Jollof rice.

Steps to make Baked jollof rice:
  1. Soak the rice in warm water for 30 minutes
  2. Peel and blend tomatoes, 2 onion, chili, ginger and garlic. Sweat them in a pan until water dries out
  3. Dice the other onions and saute for a minute, add in tomato paste and stir
  4. Add in the blended mixture and let simmer for 5 minutes
  5. Add in thyme, oregano, salt and the cube. Add the chopped bell pepper
  6. Add in the rice and the water and stir
  7. Cover with foil and place in a preheated oven under 150 degrees Celsius. Keep checking until water dries out
  8. Remove from oven and let sit for at least 5 minutes before serving
  9. Serve and garnish

The basics of jollof rice are the same no matter what you do. Take it off the stove and in a small foil pan or baking pan, pour in your rice mix and smoothen it out in the pan. Jollof rice, or jollof (/dʒəˈlɒf/), also known as benachin in Wolof ('one pot'), is a one-pot rice dish popular in many West African countries such as The Gambia, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Togo and Mali. Oven baked jollof rice is an easy one pot recipe that transfers all the goodness you get from cooking on the stovetop to the oven with less stress. Jollof rice is a spicy, traditional dish of West African origin.

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