Are you tired of eating your usual jellof rice or you’re looking at having guests over and you wanna try something different then Coconut rice could do the trick.

While the face looks like your everyday jellof rice the taste is quite different.

Below are the Ingredients and Steps to Preparing your own coconut rice.

Ingredients

  • 3 cup rice (feel free to substitute brown rice if needed)
  • 600mls coconut milk
  • 1 can diced tomatoes/Tomatoe Stew
  • 4 medium habanero peppers
  • green pepper (diced)
  • 1 small onion (diced)
  • Vegetable oil
  • Salt
  • 2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon thyme(Optional)

Before you cook Coconut Rice

  1. Prepare the tomato stew if you don’t have some in the freezer. It is advisable to prepare tomato stew before hand and keep in the freezer.
  2. If you will use whole chicken, wash and cut the whole chicken into pieces. Place the pieces in a pot; add water till it just covers the pieces of chicken, add the chopped onions, stock cubes and thyme and start cooking. The cooking time depends on the type of chicken. The rooster or cockerel cooks much faster than the hen but the hen is tastier. Cooking till done and add salt to taste. Put the pieces of chicken in a sieve to drain, then fry with vegetable oil. You can also grill it in an oven.
  3. When you’re done with the chicken you extract the coconut milk. Set the coconut milk aside.
  4. Parboil the rice till it’s a bit soft so it will be faster to boil.

Steps

  1. Now we need a pot big enough to accommodate the rice till it is done. Bear in mind that the rice will normally rise by at least one quarter of its quantity from the parboiled state to the done state.
  2. Pour the chicken stock, coconut milk and the tomato stew into the selected pot. Set on the stove to boil. Add the drained parboiled rice, salt and pepper to taste. If necessary, top up with water to bring the water level to the same level as the rice. This is to ensure that all the water dries up by the time the rice is cooked.
  3. Cover the pot and leave to cook on medium heat. This way the rice does not burn before the water dries up.