Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, coconut jollof rice. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Coconut Jellof rice is basically jellof rice with added spices and fortified with coconut cream. In most West African countries, coconut is grated and the cream is extracted to be used for jellof coconut rice. In this recipe, I used tomatoes, onions, garlic salt, bay leaves, dried thyme and chicken. Chicken bones usually add flavor to a meal.

Coconut jollof rice is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Coconut jollof rice is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook coconut jollof rice using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut jollof rice:

1. Get 6 cups rice
2. Take 1 litre chicken stock
3. Prepare 1 cup vegetable oil
4. Prepare 1 spring onion
5. Prepare 6 fresh tomatoes
6. Prepare Habanero pepper
7. Make ready 3 cups coconut milk
8. Get 6 medium sized carrot
9. Prepare 4 green bell pepper
10. Make ready 3 stock cube
11. Make ready 10 g kitchen glory stock powder
12. Take to taste Salt

It is popular in many West African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Togo and Senegal. This dish originated during the Jollof Empire and this is where it gets its name. There are many variations of this dish, depending on the region and availability of ingredients. Coconut jollof rice can be served with green pepper sauce.

Instructions to make Coconut jollof rice:

1. Wash your rice with warm water and salt then set aside
2. In a cooking pot, add the meat stock, one and half litres of water and the coconut milk, bring to boil then add the stock cube and stock powder, taste and adjust with salt
3. Next, add the washed rice to the pot then cover to cook till done
4. While the rice is cooking, dice your tomatoes, pepper and vegetables then set aside
5. Lastly, heat the vegetable oil in a large sauce pan or pot then add the spring onion and saute, at this point add the diced tomatoes and pepper and fry till dry, season with stock cube and kitchen glory to taste, add the cooked rice and combine by staring on a low heat. Taste and adjust if necessary, stir for about five minutes then put off your heat
6. Serve with any protein of your choice

There are many variations of this dish, depending on the region and availability of ingredients. Coconut jollof rice can be served with green pepper sauce. In our previous article we did how to prepare jollof rice with peppered turkey wings. Dooney's Kitchen Tip: because this is coconut jollof rice, I am washing the rice first, as I am boiling the rice with coconut. Ordinarily, for Party Jollof Rice, I wash the rice after it has cooked to al dente.

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