West African food?

Question

What kind of rice is used for jollof rice?

Also, does anyone have a good recipe for vegetarian groundnut soup or vegetarian okra stew?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Long-grain rice for Jollof rice

GROUNDNUT SOUP serves 4

500g / llb assorted parts of meat (washed)

I medium smoked fish (washed)

225g / 8oz stockfish

225g / 8oz bushmeat (washed)

500g / 8oz roasted groundnuts

lpt stock or water

100g / 4oz ground crayfish

25g / loz iru (locust bean)

2 medium fresh tomatoes

100g / 4oz ground pepper

I onion

3 large pepper (tatase)

salt to taste

Place the washed meats in a large pot, add a drop of wa ter or stock, season with salt and ground pepper and boil for 30 minutes or until tender. Add the smoked fish and stockfish, cook for another l0 minutes. Add the rest of the stock. Bring to the boil and add the ground fresh tomatoes, onions, pepper, iru and groundnut. Cook for 20 minutes until the soup thickens. Sprinkle in ground crayfish and stir. Simmer for another 10 minutes. Check seasoning and serve hot with boiled rice.

Okra Stew, Caribbean

8 servings over brown rice

Ingredients

2 lbs Okra, whole frozen

1 lb Okra, frozen cut

2 large Onions

8 Garlic Cloves, crushed

1 lb Sweet Peppers, green, red and yellow

1/2 tsp. Allspice, ground

Red Pepper Sauce, to taste

1 lb Roma Tomatoes

3 cups Brown Rice cooked in 6 cups of water

(To enlarge the photo of the Caribbean okra stew, click on the photo or link)

Preparation

We prepare this recipe by cooking the rice on the stovetop and the stew in our microwave oven.  If you wish to cook fewer serving, cut the recipe in half.

We begin by placing the six cups of water in our covered rice cooking pot and bring the water to a boil on high heat.

While the water is heating, thaw the frozen okra in the microwave oven in a covered dish, and peel the onions and garlic.  Dice one of the onions, and cut the other onion and half (lengthwise) and slice the halves.  Place the onions in a large microwaveable covered dish.  Crush the garlic and add to the covered dish.  Add the hot pepper sauce and allspice and mix well.  Cover the dish, and cook in the microwave oven on "high" for 5 minutes.

When the water in the rice pot begins to boil, add the rice, cover, and reduce the heat to "simmer".  When all the water has been absorbed, turn the heat off.

Wash the sweet peppers, remove the stem and seeds, and slice into strips.  When the onions and garlic have finished cooking, add the okra and peppers and mix. Cover the dish and place back into the microwave for another 10-15 minutes, or until the okra and peppers have become hot, but not fully cooked.  Mix after each 5 minutes of cooking to insure uniform heating.

While these ingredients are cooking, wash the tomatoes and remove the stem end.  Slice each tomato lengthwise, and then slice the halves across into semicircles.  When the okra and peppers have become hot, add the tomatoes, cover, and cook for another 10 minutes, or until the veggies are cooked to your satisfaction, mixing after each 5 minutes.

Serve over a bed of brown rice and enjoy!

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Answer 2

I am a former chef and used to go to a Ghanain place here in Toronto On Canada and have all those dishes, although my okra stew was made with goat, you can make it without, and the rice was a long grain one, Uncle Bens is nice, it stays together best.

Groundnut soup is easier to make as a veggie option as it has not meat in it generally, I use the natural peanut butter from the health food store.

Here is a link for the recipes and there variations.