26/06/2023
JOLLOF RICE GARNISHED WITH DODO & FRIED STEW TURKEY
Hey Foodies, am reposting this recipe that won me some lovely tower pot from Knorr Nigeria.
Going through my archive and I saw this post with the recipe, take me back to early Facebook and competition days π
You Will Need:
10 pieces of fresh tomatoes
1 Onions
4 pieces of Red bell pepper known as Tatashe
3 pieces of scotch bonnet known as Ata rodo
1- 70 gram of tomato paste which I made used of tasty Tom
2 cooking spoon Vegetable oil
Turkey or Chicken
2 cubes of knorr chicken
1 teaspoon of curry powder
1 teaspoon of dried Thyme
1 teaspoons of powdered ginger and garlic
3 teaspoon of grounded crayfish
Salt to taste
2 derica cup of rice
2 piece of not too ripe plantain
Handful of green peas
:
1. Wash and blend the fresh tomatoes, red bell pepper and Scotch bonnet together to a smooth paste with a little water.
2. Wash your meat, season with slice onions, ginger, garlic and thyme, allow to cook till tender.
3. Parboil your rice and make sure it's firm but not hard, bring down, sieve out and washed, set aside.
4. Washed your plantain, peel and slice into small cubes, sprinkle Salt on it and set aside.
5. In a pot, add your cooking vegetable oil, allow to heat and add your slice cubed plantain and fried till golden brown, remove it from the pot and set aside.
6. Fry your turkey meat, set aside and add your slice onions to the heated oil, add your blended tomatoes, Crayfish, salt to taste, curry powder and stir. At this time you can add your fry meat to so as the taste from your stew can incorporate in the meat for some minutes, remove and set aside.
7. Add your tomatoes paste, one cube of Knorr chicken, fry till it thicken, taste for Salt and seasoning if need be, add more to it.
Add your stock from your cooked meat and stir with your wooden spoon, close the pot and allow to boil for some minute.
8. Add your parboiling rice, stir with your wooden spoon to prevent rice from clumping, cover pot properly and allow to cooked, check to ensure that the rice have cooked to your taste, add your washed green peas and cover pot properly to allow the steam from the jollof to heat the veggie.
9. Allow your Jollof to burn a little bit, take off heat and stir.
10. Serve with dodo and fried stew turkey
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