Jamaican Rice And Beans Recipes

Steps:

• Place beans, garlic, coconut milk and 2 cups water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer the beans until they are tender, about 2 hours.
• Add 2 1/2 cups water, rice, scallions, thyme, 1 tablespoon of salt, and some freshly-ground black pepper. Bring mixture to a boil, stir, then reduce heat, cover, and cook without stirring about 20 minutes, until rice has absorbed all the liquid.
• Allow mixture to stand for 15 minutes, still covered. Fluff rice and beans with a fork before serving and add additional salt and pepper, to taste, if desired.

Steps:

• Combine the kidney beans, garlic, water and salt to taste in a saucepan. Cook, covered over medium heat until tender, about 2 hours.
• Add the coconut milk, pepper to taste, scallion, onion, thyme and whole fresh pepper.
• Bring to a boil, remove the hot pepper. Then add the rice and stir.
• Return to a boil, cover, reduce the heat, and simmer for 25 minutes, or until all the liquids have been absorbed. Serve hot as a side dish.
• * Can use 16-oz. can cooked beans instead. Drain and combine with water and other ingredients except rice. Boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add rice, boil, reduce heat and cook about 20 minutes or until liquids are absorbed.

Steps:

• Combine beans and coconut milk in a large saucepan; cook for 2 hours on low heat.
• Stir in thyme, garlic, onions and 3 slices chile pepper; simmer for 7 minutes.
• Stir in rice and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 25 minutes, or until all liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a deep skillet or medium sized saucepan with a good lid to medium high.
• Salt and pepper the chicken thighs and place them in the pan, skin side down.
• Brown both sides of the chicken thighs and then remove from the pan and keep warm.
• Adjust the fat in the pan by removing some or adding some and add onions to the fat in the pan.
• Sprinkle with salt, pepper, thyme and curry powder and saute until they start to soften.
• Add rice and stir to coat the rice with the oil and seasonings.
• Add the liquid to the pan and raise heat to high.
• Scrape the bottom of the pan to get up the crusty bits and incorporate everything together.
• When the pot boils nestle the browned chicken into the rice and put the lid on the pan.
• Turn heat down to low and let simmer for 45 minutes or until rice is tender and chicken is cooked through.
• Remove chicken from the rice and remove skin and bones.
• Shred meat and return to the rice.
• Add beans and any vegetables, stir to combine and let sit over low heat to warm the beans and vegetables.
• Serve with pineapple or mango chutney and a big green salad!

Steps:

• Boil the beans, garlic and salt until the beans are tender. Save three cups of the liquid.
• Place the beans and the three cups liquid to the pot along with the reaming ingredients.
• When it comes to a boil, add in the rice. Let it boil for 20 minutes and simmer when all the water has dissolved.
• Stir it with wooden spoon.

Steps:

• Place beans and garlic in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a simmer and cook until the beans are tender, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. When the beans are tender, stir in the coconut milk, green onions, Scotch bonnet, and thyme, and increase the heat to a boil. Stir in the rice, add some salt and pepper, cover the pot, and cook until the rice is tender and has absorbed most of the liquid. Transfer to a large serving bowl, taste for seasoning, adding more salt and pepper if needed, and garnish with sliced green onions.