Jamaican rice and peas, also known as rice and pigeon peas, is a popular and flavorful dish originating from Jamaica. A staple in Jamaican cuisine, this dish is often served as a main course or as a side dish with meat, fish, or vegetables. The combination of rice and peas, along with aromatic spices and vibrant flavors, creates a delightful culinary experience that reflects the vibrant culture of Jamaica. Whether you're a seasoned cook or a beginner in the kitchen, this article will guide you through the process of creating this delicious and authentic Jamaican rice and peas dish, taking you on a culinary journey to the heart of Jamaica.
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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...
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.
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.
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.
Tips
- Use fresh, high-quality ingredients: The better the quality of your ingredients, the better your rice and peas will taste. Look for fresh, plump peas and long-grain rice.
- Rinse the rice before cooking: This will help to remove any starch and impurities, resulting in fluffier rice.
- Use the right amount of liquid: The ratio of liquid to rice is important for achieving the perfect consistency. For 1 cup of rice, you will need 1 1/2 cups of liquid.
- Bring the liquid to a boil before adding the rice: This will help to prevent the rice from becoming mushy.
- Cover the pot and cook over low heat: This will allow the rice to cook evenly and absorb all of the liquid.
- Do not stir the rice while it is cooking: Stirring the rice will release starch, making it sticky and gummy.
- Let the rice rest before serving: After the rice is cooked, let it rest for 5-10 minutes before fluffing it with a fork. This will help to prevent the rice from becoming mushy.
Conclusion
Jamaican rice and peas is a delicious and easy-to-make dish that is perfect for any occasion. With its vibrant colors and flavorful ingredients, it is sure to be a hit with your family and friends. So next time you are looking for a tasty and satisfying meal, give Jamaican rice and peas a try. You won't be disappointed!
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