Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Nigerian Party Jollof Rice Cooking Basics for Beginners

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Nigerian Party Jollof Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Nigerian Party Jollof Rice is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nigerian party jollof rice using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Nigerian Party Jollof Rice:

1. Take 3 Cup Rice
2. Get 11/2 Cup Boiled down pepper mix (tomato, peppers & onions)
3. Prepare 120 ml Vegetable Oil
4. Prepare 1 Sachet Tomato Paste (70g)
5. Make ready 1/2 Tablespoon Ginger Paste
6. Get 1 Tablespoon Butter
7. Take 4 Bay leaves
8. Prepare 3 Knorr Cubes
9. Get 1 Sachet Maggi Jollof Seasoning
10. Take 3 Teaspoons Curry
11. Get 3 Teaspoons Thyme
12. Take 2 Cups Beef/Chicken Stock
13. Make ready 2 Big Onion

Good quality homemade meat broth is required. Hallo, i am from Kenya, my fiancé is from Nigeria. I have never cooked Jollof Rice before or any other Nigerian food. So i decided to surprise him one day and i prepared this Jollof.

Steps to make Nigerian Party Jollof Rice:

1. Heat up the vegetable oil in a pot. Saute the onion with the ginger paste for 2 minutes. Fry the tomato paste for about 5 minutes until u notice it looks as if it forms lumps. This step is very important as some brand are a bit sour.
2. Add the boiled down pepper mix and fry again until you notice the pepper mix separates from the oil. Season with curry, thyme and jollof seasoning.
3. Add the beef/chicken stock and water enough to cook the rice. Add bay leaves.
4. Add seasoning cube and check for salt. Bring this mixture to a rolling boil. Add the washed rice.
5. Stir everything together. Cover the pot with foil sheet before using the lid. This is to trap all the steam needed to cook the rice.
6. Once rice is soft, add butter and stir. Serve with salad, coleslaw, moi moi or peppered meat.
7. NOTE: To get the typical smoky flavour associated with the Nigerian party jollof, you have to deliberately burn the rice at the end of the cooking process by slightly increasing the heat. It's also important to properly cover the pot using a foil sheet before the lid so as to properly trap in all the steam & cook the rice without adding excess water leading to a soggy jollof.
8. Remember, it's the steam that cooks the rice and not the water. The quality of the pepper mix and rich stock also contribute to attaining a delicious Nigerian jollof.

I have never cooked Jollof Rice before or any other Nigerian food. So i decided to surprise him one day and i prepared this Jollof. Nigerian Jollof Rice is probably the BEST jollof rice recipe in the world: rich and flavorful with a slight smokey taste that gives it its unique name as the Party Jollof Rice. This Party Jollof rice is quite easy to prepare and if you follow the basic recipe and the steps on this page , you can never go wrong. Nigerian party jollof rice, here it is but you won't get to see the bay leaves when rice is served because these leaves are used only for that aroma, once cooking is done, pick out all the bay leaves in the pot before serving your food.

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