Recipe: Delicious Palm oil jollof rice

Palm oil jollof rice. 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. It is quite different from the popular Nigerian Jollof Rice because this recipe uses Palm Oil and other indigenous Nigerian spices. Palm oil jollof rice recipe is almost similar to the popular Nigerian jollof rice made with vegetable oil.

Njanga Rice or Crayfish Rice or Palm Oil Jollof Rice or Palm Oil Rice or Native Jollof Rice is rice cooked with crayfish, palm oil. It is smoky, spicy, so good! When I first wrote this recipe on the blog, it was totally unplanned. You can cook Palm oil jollof rice using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Palm oil jollof rice

1. It's of Rice.
2. You need of Palm oil.
3. You need of Locust baen.
4. You need of Smoked fish.
5. It's Cube of seasoning.
6. Prepare of Salt.
7. Prepare of Grinded pepper.
8. You need of Onion.

I woke up one day and made a quick early morning craving. Growing up in Nigeria, Palm oil rice was a staple. It was easy to cook without any hassle. It involves the use of palm oil, spicy peppers, cray fish and dry fish.

Palm oil jollof rice instructions

1. Chop onions, grate pepper, wash dried fish with warm water and salt, set aside..
2. Add palm oil to a pot and heat, add grated pepper and onion, stir continuously..
3. Add salt, locust bean, seasoning, smoked fish and add water. Cover pot and allow water to boil..
4. Wash rice with salt and water and pour into the boiling water..

I remember always cooking this meal and feeding my neighbor's kids. I would cook and feed everyone while my poor mother looked on. Palm oil jollof rice recipe is very spicy rice cooked with red palm oil, it is very easy and quick to prepare. This delicious vibrant orange looking rice meal is usually cooked with some native ingredients (crayfish, dried or smoked fish) and then garnished with scent leaves (Basil)..oil jollof rice is not usually served at parties, which is really a shame, because it can hold its own flavour wise and aesthetically against any rice dish. Any type of meat or fish can be used to serve Nigerian palm oil jollof rice.