You know those days when you’re hungry, rather starving! and you almost absolutely positively know you’ll be sprawled passed out on the floor if you manage to get through the prepping the ingredients stage? Wellllllllll I go through that quite regularly�� but as I loooooove to eat and loooooooove food I found out that popping every single ingredient in the pot at the same time works absolute magic����������and more often than none, the food is done in about 20 minutes max 25 minutes (doesn’t work for beans o! Ehen)
Jollof rice is one thing I still don’t cook very well, at least compared to the “Iya Alase’s” (Women who cook at your home for a few as in local firewood and huge cauldrons and stuff). They get it right all the time and in such huge quantities too!
Anyway, so I get home starving like Marvin and alas rice (which I try not to eat too often) is the fastest thing to cook so I wash the rice severally (1 cup), pour some already blended pepper (about 4 cooking spoons) in with the rice in a pot, add salt to taste, chop 1 onion, 3 cloves of garlic add half that to the pot, about a teaspoon of dried yellow pepper, about a handful of ground dried crayfish, a couple pieces of smoked catfish (love love love), add water to cover and cook for about 20 minutes or until water dries.
I tasted for softness, stirred and then added turmeric powder, dried sweet basil and the rest of the chopped onion and garlic with a little more water reduced the heat and steamed for just under 5minutes and voila my one pot wonder was ready. I was patient enough to plate and take a picture��.
PS: Mostly I don’t cook with oil and I have found out the food tastes just as great if not better and a lot healthier too. That said, when I do cook with oil I hardly ever add more that a couple tablespoons and that would be for a huge pot.
I use mostly cold pressed olive, sesame and coconut oils.
Enjoy��
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