Recipe: Yummy Palm oil jollof rice
Palm oil jollof rice. The main difference being that palm oil is used rather than vegetable oil. Just like the Palm oil Stew, local spices are also used. Njanga Rice or Crayfish Rice or Palm Oil Jollof Rice or Palm Oil Rice or Native Jollof Rice is rice cooked with crayfish, palm oil.
I woke up one day and made a quick early morning craving. The Nigerian native Jollof Rice is also known as Iwuk Edesi or Palm oil Rice is soul food at its finest - It's hearty, incredibly satisfying, and deeply comforting. This meal is also known as Palm oil jollof rice or Native jollof rice. You can cook Palm oil jollof rice using 0 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Palm oil jollof rice
Palm oil rice is prepared by the different ethnic groups in the country and these ethnic groups have different styles of making it and different names for it as well. Amongst the Efik-Ibibio for instance, this food is known as Iwuk Edesi. Growing up in Nigeria, Palm oil rice was a staple. It was easy to cook without any hassle.
Palm oil jollof rice step by step
- Parboiled your beans, drain and set aside.
- Wash your pepper, Scotch bonnet, onion, Grate them together and set aside.
- In a pot add in palm oil and onion fry for 2mnt, add in grated pepper, ginger and garlic saute for 3mnt.
- Add all your seasoning and spices saute for 1mnt, pour water in and allow to boil.
- Add in wash rice stir and cover the pot until half done cook.
- Then add your parboiled beans and stir, cover the pot and cook until the water drain up or until your rice is well cook, add in your fried fish and onion cover the pot and allow it to simmer for 3mnt. Serve and enjoy 😋😋😋.
It involves the use of palm oil, spicy peppers, cray fish and dry fish. I remember always cooking this meal and feeding my neighbor's kids. Palm oil jollof rice is sometimes referred to as native jollof rice. However, palm oil Jollof rice is called 'Iwuk Edesi' by the Efik people and 'Iresi elepo' by the Yorubas. This palm oil rice is infused with flavours like smoked fish, crayfish and of course iru and palm oil.
