Recipe: Perfect Palm oil jallof rice

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Recipe: Perfect Palm oil jallof rice Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Palm oil jallof rice. Nigerian palm oil jollof rice is a variant of the Nigerian 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.

This meal is also known as Palm oil jollof rice or Native jollof rice.

Heat up oil and saute onions.

Add tomatoes and cook until they shrink.

You can have Palm oil jallof rice using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Palm oil jallof rice

  1. You need of Cooked rice.

  2. It’s of Palm oil.

  3. Prepare of Spices.

  4. It’s of Seasonings.

  5. You need of Onions.

  6. It’s of Red bell pp.

  7. Prepare of Scotch bonet.

  8. It’s of Smoked fish.

  9. It’s of Cooked ram meat.

  10. You need of Spinach.

Add in blended garlic and stir.

Add in coarsely blended crayfish and stir.

Add washed rice to the pot and stir.

The Nigerian native Jollof Rice is also known as Iwuk Edesi or Palm oil Rice is a soul food at it's finest - It's hearty, incredibly satisfying and deeply comforting.

Palm oil jallof rice step by step

  1. Heat palm oil in a pot add onions and cinnomon stick.

  2. Add in cummin,dry ginger and black pp.

  3. Add in paste,cooked ram meat and seasonings.

  4. Add in wash smoked fish and fry for 10minutes then add in water. Cover the pot till its boil.

  5. When it boils add cooked rice,spinach and stir well. Cover and lower the heat till all cooked.

  6. Done.

It is quite different from the popular Nigerian Jollof Rice because this recipe uses Palm Oil and other indigenous Nigerian spices.

If it's available to you, use palm oil.

It will give the rice a distinct red color as well as that African flavor.

Palm oil is common in parts of Africa and imparts a reddish color to the dish.

Other oils are perfectly suitable as I know palm oil is not readily available at all grocery stores.