Jamaican rice is a savory dish that is bursting with flavor. This classic Jamaican dish is known for its vibrant colors, tender textures, and the distinctive aroma of its spices. The main ingredients typically include fragrant rice, such as basmati or jasmine, aromatic herbs, a variety of vegetables, and an assortment of jerk-spiced meats. Jamaican rice is a versatile dish that can be enjoyed as a main course or a side dish, and it is commonly served with stewed meats, curries, or fried plantains. Whether you are looking for a quick and easy weeknight meal or a special dish to impress your guests, Jamaican rice is sure to satisfy your cravings for something flavorful and exotic.
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JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
This quick one-pot version of Jamaican rice and peas opts for kidney beans, with a kick from Scotch bonnet peppers and red pepper flakes.
Provided by In the Kitchen with Iesha
Categories World Cuisine Recipes Latin American Caribbean
Time 40m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Rinse rice in a fine strainer.
- Heat oil in a large 5-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic, green onions, and thyme; cook until wilted, about 2 minutes. Add the rice, kidney beans, stock, coconut milk, Scotch bonnet pepper, salt, sugar, black pepper, red pepper flakes, allspice, and cayenne pepper.
- Bring to a boil, uncovered. Reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer until rice is tender and liquid has evaporated, about 20 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 391.1 calories, Carbohydrate 60.1 g, Cholesterol 1.5 mg, Fat 13 g, Fiber 9.3 g, Protein 10.7 g, SaturatedFat 9.6 g, Sodium 1385.8 mg, Sugar 1.1 g
JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
Steps:
- Place beans and garlic in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a simmer and cook until the beans are tender, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. When the beans are tender, stir in the coconut milk, green onions, Scotch bonnet, and thyme, and increase the heat to a boil. Stir in the rice, add some salt and pepper, cover the pot, and cook until the rice is tender and has absorbed most of the liquid. Transfer to a large serving bowl, taste for seasoning, adding more salt and pepper if needed, and garnish with sliced green onions.
JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
The peas in this aren't really peas at all, but red beans. It is customary in the Caribbean to refer to beans as "peas". This recipe uses coconut cream, but the flavor is mild and not overpowering--just enough to give a hint of island flavor. The scotch bonnet is not as fiery as you'd think as well, since it is added whole and not cut (to expose the seeds and membranes). If you want it hot, you can cut it open, but the dish has a mild flavor of chile overall. Great serving ideas for this recipe would include jerk chicken, calalou, conch chowder, beef patties, or curry. For dessert, I have served this with Caribbean Lime Mousse (recipe posted here).
Provided by PalatablePastime
Categories Long Grain Rice
Time 2h1m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Rinse and sort beans and place in a stockpot.
- Cover with several inches of water and soak overnight,-or- bring to a boil, boil gently for 3 minutes, then remove from heat, cover, and allow to sit undisturbed for 1 hour.
- Drain and rinse beans.
- Bring to a boil with chicken stock, water, and coconut cream.
- Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 1 1/2-2 hours or until beans are tender and creamy.
- Add the thyme, allspice, scallion, onion, garlic, scotch bonnet, brown sugar, uncooked rice, salt and pepper.
- Check the level of liquid over the rice and make sure there is at least one inch of liquid (if not, you may add water or broth to cover).
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20-30 minutes or until rice is tender.
- Serve hot as a side dish, with Jamaican hot sauce as a condiment, if desired.
- For Vegetarian use water not the chicken broth or stock.
SLOW COOKER CHIPOTLE-LIME CHICKEN THIGHS JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
Provided by Robin Miller : Food Network
Categories main-dish
Time 3h20m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- For the chicken: Arrange onion, celery and carrots in bottom of slow cooker. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper and arrange over vegetables.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together tomato sauce, lime juice, chipotle chiles with sauce, and garlic. Pour mixture over chicken.
- Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or high for 3 to 4 hours. Serve half of the thighs with this meal (topped with diced avocado and cilantro and garnished with lime wedges) and reserve remaining thighs for another meal.
- For the rice: In a medium saucepan, combine rice, coconut milk, water, beans, thyme, and lime zest. Set pan over high heat and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 5 minutes, until liquid is absorbed. Fold in scallions and season to taste with salt and pepper.
QUICK AND EASY JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
Steps:
- - Start to cook rice - In a saucepan, saute onion with one tablespoon butter - add to rice - When rice has reached a boil and on simmer, add the beans, coconut milk, salt and pepper and let simmer for duration of cooking - Add thyme to the pot in last five minutes of cooking - add scotch bonnet pepper or jalapeno pepper at the same time - When rice has cooked, take off burner and let cool, take out thyme and peppers before serving! Great with chicken dishes, fish dishes, or a new dish to add to your Thanksgiving and Christmas table...
JAMAICAN BEANS AND RICE DISH
Kidney beans are simmered in coconut milk and then cooked with rice, chile pepper and herbs.
Provided by sal
Categories Main Dish Recipes Rice Beans and Rice Recipes
Time 2h35m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Combine beans and coconut milk in a large saucepan; cook for 2 hours on low heat.
- Stir in thyme, garlic, onions and 3 slices chile pepper; simmer for 7 minutes. Stir in rice and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 25 minutes, or until all liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 407.3 calories, Carbohydrate 67.5 g, Fat 9.9 g, Fiber 9.6 g, Protein 13.8 g, SaturatedFat 7.5 g, Sodium 12.2 mg, Sugar 1.2 g
JAMAICAN RICE
Authentic Jamaican rice. This adds a sweet, vegetarian complement to spicy dishes!
Provided by nostatic
Categories Side Dish Rice Side Dish Recipes
Time 45m
Yield 2
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Heat the oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and red apple; cook and stir until onion is transparent. Season with curry powder, and stir in the water. Add the rice and molasses, cover, and cook over low heat until the rice is tender, and water has been absorbed, about 30 minutes.
- Mix in the banana, then sprinkle the coconut on top. Heat through for a moment over low heat before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 398.3 calories, Carbohydrate 71.6 g, Fat 10.7 g, Fiber 5.6 g, Protein 6.1 g, SaturatedFat 3.2 g, Sodium 11.1 mg, Sugar 13.9 g
SLOW COOKER CHIPOTLE-LIME CHICKEN THIGHS AND JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
Steps:
- Arrange onion, celery and carrots in bottom of slow cooker. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper and arrange over vegetables. In a medium bowl, whisk together tomato sauce, lime juice, chipotle chiles with sauce, and garlic. Pour mixture over chicken. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or high for 3 to 4 hours. Serve half of the thighs with this meal (topped with diced avocado and cilantro and garnished with lime wedges) and reserve remaining thighs for another meal. Rice & Peas: In a medium saucepan, combine rice, coconut milk, water, beans, thyme, and lime zest. Set pan over high heat and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 5 minutes, until liquid is absorbed. Fold in scallions and season to taste with salt and pepper.
JAMAICAN SPIKED CHICKEN AND RICE
Rum-spiked chicken in tasty sauce atop a bed of rice. Topped with banana slices. This is my favorite dish to prepare because you get to set the chicken on fire.
Provided by IIJUAN12
Categories World Cuisine Recipes Latin American Caribbean
Time 45m
Yield 3
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a pot, bring the rice and water to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer 20 minutes.
- Heat the oil and melt the butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Place chicken in skillet, and cook 6 to 8 minutes per side, or until juices run clear.
- Pour rum over chicken. With a long match, carefully light the rum on fire. When flames subside, mix the mushrooms, bouillon granules, garlic powder, pepper, and coconut milk into the skillet. Reduce heat to low, and simmer 10 minutes, until heated through.
- Serve chicken and mushroom mixture over cooked rice. Top with banana slices.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 915.5 calories, Carbohydrate 42.9 g, Cholesterol 113.3 mg, Fat 61.9 g, Fiber 3.7 g, Protein 34.8 g, SaturatedFat 37.9 g, Sodium 1322.2 mg, Sugar 6 g
QUICK JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
This recipe is from Jamaicans.com. It uses a slow cooker, which I think is great. There is, however, a problem with one of the ingredients. It calls for pigeon peas in coconut milk. I've never seen that here. Although I haven't made this recipe, I think you could use regular canned pigeon peas and replace about 1/2 cup of the water with coconut milk. Perhaps add a little extra coconut milk for the juice that would have been in the peas. Time is just a guesstimate.
Provided by Debbie R.
Categories Rice
Time 1h15m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Pour the rice in the rice cooker.
- Combine the water, green pigeon peas with coconut milk, salt, pepper, thyme, garlic and scallions. Pour over the rice. Rice should be completely covered with water, and at least an inch above it if this recipe is like others I have cooked.
- Place Scotch bonnet in the pot (Do not cut it up if you don't want a lot of heat.) Turn on the rice cooker. Serve when finished. Don't keep the rice cooker on warm as it will burn the bottom of the rice.
JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
Provided by Lezlene Brown
Categories Blender Bean Rice Side Vegetarian Coconut Hot Pepper Vegan Gourmet Sugar Conscious Pescatarian Dairy Free Wheat/Gluten-Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free No Sugar Added Kosher
Yield Makes 10 to 12 side-dish servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Simmer kidney beans in 4 cups water in a 5-quart saucepan, covered, until beans are almost tender, about 1 1/4 hours (do not drain).
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400°F.
- Pierce 2 softest eyes of coconut with a metal skewer or small screwdriver and drain liquid. Bake coconut on middle of oven 15 minutes. With a hammer or back of a heavy cleaver, break shell and remove flesh, levering it out carefully with screwdriver or point of a strong knife. Remove brown membrane with a sharp paring knife or vegetable peeler, then cut coconut into small pieces.
- Purée coconut with hot water in a blender and transfer to a bowl (use caution when blending hot liquids). Cool purée to lukewarm and pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, pressing hard on solids. Working over same bowl, squeeze small handfulls of solids to extract as much additional milk as possible. Add water if necessary to total 2 cups liquid.
- Stir coconut milk into almost-tender beans along with salt, scallions, thyme, and chile, then simmer, covered, 15 minutes.
- Add 5 cups water and bring to a boil. Stir in rice and return to a boil, then cover. Reduce heat to low and cook until water is absorbed and rice is tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, 10 minutes, then fluff with a fork. Discard scallions, thyme, and chile.
JAMAICAN STYLE PEAS AND RICE (RED BEANS AND RICE)
I love this recipe! My first time making red beans and rice in 2003 and it was perfect! I've never used the pepper and I also used extra seasonings like garlic powder etc. I use the canned beans because dried beans take so long to cook!! My kids can't wait that long! :-) This is great with a stew or a curry, like chicken or goat. Whenever I bought a stew or a curry from the Jamaican restaurants back home, they automatically came with this rice. If you eat it on it's own, it may seem a bit plain.
Provided by byZula
Categories Rice
Time 2h15m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Combine the kidney beans, garlic, water and salt to taste in a saucepan. Cook, covered over medium heat until tender, about 2 hours.
- Add the coconut milk, pepper to taste, scallion, onion, thyme and whole fresh pepper.
- Bring to a boil, remove the hot pepper. Then add the rice and stir.
- Return to a boil, cover, reduce the heat, and simmer for 25 minutes, or until all the liquids have been absorbed. Serve hot as a side dish.
- * Can use 16-oz. can cooked beans instead. Drain and combine with water and other ingredients except rice. Boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add rice, boil, reduce heat and cook about 20 minutes or until liquids are absorbed.
INSTANT POT® JAMAICAN RICE AND BEANS
A traditional Jamaican chicken and rice recipe, tweaked to be made in the Instant Pot®. Delicious comfort food!
Provided by Cybergy
Categories World Cuisine Recipes Latin American Caribbean
Time 52m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Turn on a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot®) and select Saute function. Add oil. Saute chicken, onion, and garlic until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes; do not brown garlic.
- Add broth, black beans, rice, corn, coconut milk, hot sauce, thyme, black pepper, brown sugar, and allspice and stir well. Close and lock the lid. Select high pressure and close vent. Set timer for 15 minutes. Allow about 10 minutes for pressure to build.
- Release pressure using the natural-release method according to manufacturer's instructions, 10 to 40 minutes. Unlock and remove the lid.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 454.4 calories, Carbohydrate 63.9 g, Cholesterol 34.3 mg, Fat 12.9 g, Fiber 7.7 g, Protein 22.2 g, SaturatedFat 8.1 g, Sodium 1512.7 mg, Sugar 4.8 g
AUTHENTIC JAMAICAN RICE AND PEAS
Make and share this Authentic Jamaican Rice and Peas recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Razzlledazzlle
Categories Healthy
Time 30m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Boil the beans, garlic and salt until the beans are tender. Save three cups of the liquid.
- Place the beans and the three cups liquid to the pot along with the reaming ingredients.
- When it comes to a boil, add in the rice. Let it boil for 20 minutes and simmer when all the water has dissolved.
- Stir it with wooden spoon.
JAMAICAN RICE WITH "PEAS"
I found this recipe in a book in the library and it instantly appealed to me because of its unusual exotic flavour (coconut and chili). There is a little story behind its name: In Jamaica they say peas when they mean beans and therefore this dish is called rice with peas even though there are none in it.
Provided by Lalaloula
Categories Long Grain Rice
Time 30m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Mix all ingredients in a big pot (cast-iron would be best). Add water until up to 2.5 cm above the rice.
- Bring to a boil slowly, using medium heat. Reduce to low heat and simmer for approximately 25 minutes until the rice is soft and has absorbed the liquid.
- Remove the chili and spice the rice with thyme, pepper and salt.
- Enjoy!
SWEET JAMAICAN RICE
Make and share this Sweet Jamaican Rice recipe from Food.com.
Provided by ratherbeswimmin
Categories Rice
Time 20m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Combine all ingredients in a big skillet; cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, 5 minutes or until heated through.
JAMAICAN GRITS RICE COOKER OPTIONAL
zwt 9 caribbean i made this in rice cooker ,all the way, turned out great.will post how i did it its not as pretty but tastes good
Provided by Dienia B.
Categories Breakfast
Time 35m
Yield 2 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- drain liquid out of hominy into measuring cup fill the rest with water until it measures 2 cups.( add hominy and water to rice cooker).
- add grits to water in saucepan (add to rice cooker start).
- bring to a boil.
- cook.
- when done add pimento juice and all spices.( when done add to cooked grits allow to be on warm until cheese melts.
- and 1/2 cup cheese stir.
- add hominy.
- pour in buttered casserole.
- top with rest of cheese.
- bake350 for 25 minutes.
JAMAICAN ME CRAZY RICE (SALLYE)
Good served with almost any kind of seafood. Try my Pecan Crusted Trout recipe which appears in the recipes section.
Provided by sallye bates
Categories Rice Sides
Time 45m
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- 1. Saute the celery, onion and garlic in olive oil in heavy skillet on medium heat until tender. Add water, raisins, bouillon cubes, brown sugar, curry powder, salt, pepper and cinnamon to water and mix well. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Stir in the rice and reduce heat
- 2. Cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. Remove from heat; let stand for 10 minutes Stir in the pecans and apples and fluff up
- 3. May be garnished with additional pecans and raisins.
Tips:
- Use high-quality rice: Long-grain rice, such as Basmati or Jasmine, is best for Jamaican rice. These rices have a distinct flavor and texture that pair well with the other ingredients in the dish.
- Rinse the rice thoroughly: This removes the starch from the rice, which helps to prevent it from sticking together and becoming mushy.
- Use a heavy-bottomed pot: This will help to distribute the heat evenly and prevent the rice from burning.
- Add the right amount of liquid: The general rule of thumb is 1 cup of rice to 1 3/4 cups of liquid. However, you may need to adjust this ratio depending on the type of rice you are using and the desired consistency of the rice.
- Bring the rice to a boil, then reduce the heat: This will help to prevent the rice from boiling over and becoming mushy.
- Cover the pot and simmer the rice: Simmer the rice for 15-20 minutes, or until all of the liquid has been absorbed and the rice is tender.
- Let the rice rest before serving: This will help the rice to absorb any remaining liquid and to develop a more flavorful crust.
Conclusion:
Jamaican rice is a delicious and versatile side dish that can be served with a variety of main courses. It is easy to make and can be tailored to your own taste preferences. With a few simple tips, you can make perfect Jamaican rice every time.
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