Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, nigeria fried rice. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Nigerian Fried Rice must be the best thing that happened to birthday parties, weddings, street parties, picnics, special events and occasions. Another Fried Rice Recipe How to Cook Nigerian Fried Rice [Video] It is so easy to prepare that you can even cook it every weekend in your own home. The stock is what principally defines the flavor of Nigerian fried rice, but also does limit the rice's shelf-life, so leaving it to cool overnight, refrigerated—often recommended for Chinese fried rice—isn't ideal.
Nigeria fried rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Nigeria fried rice is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have nigeria fried rice using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Nigeria fried rice:
- Get 400 g long grainrice
- Take 600 ml turkey
- Take 3 large carrot
- Get 1 handful peas and runner beans
- Prepare 2 large green pepper
- Prepare 2 onion bulb
- Make ready 3 tabspoonful curry powder
- Get 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- Make ready 3 glove of garlic
- Take 2/3 spoonful black pepper
- Get 3 cooking spoonful vegetable oil
- Make ready 3 stock cube (know chicken)
- Take to taste salt
- Get 500 g Chicken/Turkey thighs or drumsticks(cooking the chicken)
- Prepare 1 teaspoon thyme
- Get 1 teaspoon curry
- Make ready 1 medium onion
- Make ready 1 glove garlic
- Prepare 1 small yellow pepper
- Prepare 1/2 ginger powder
- Prepare 2 stock cube (knowr)
This version uses mixed vegetables and Beef liver, which is one of the most popular choices in Nigeria, you can use Shrimp or any protein you'd like. If you would love to make vegan fried rice you can omit the Beef liver or Shrimps totally! With Nigerian Fried Rice, parboiled rice is allowed to cook with the vegetables. A meat stock is used in the last step to finish cooking the rice.
Instructions to make Nigeria fried rice:
- Add a little water and cook the chicken for 10 minutes. Then add more water and cook until done. The liquid left after cooking the chicken,is your stock. Pour the stock into a Strainer to remove tiny chicken bones and any other particles in it; then set the stock aside for later use.. Wash and place the cow liver in a pot, add seasoning cube and salt to taste; Cook the liver for 10minutes, then when cooled,cut into cubes and set aside. Liver can also be fried, before cutting into cu
- Wash all the vegetables. Dice the onion & set aside ; Peel the carrots & cut into small cubes. Remove the seeds of the green bell peppers & cut into small cubes. Place the carrots & green peas in boiling water for 5 minutes, strain out and place in a bowl of cold water, leave to cool in the water, then pour into a sieve and set aside.
- This method is called blanching. It helps to par-boil the vegetables without cooking it through, thereby cutting down the stir-frying process. It also helps to preserve the vibrant color of the vegetables.. Place the reserved chicken stock into a large pot and bring to a boil. The stock should be at almost the same level as the rice, so that it dries up completely when the rice is done. You can add some water if the stock won't be enough to cook the Rice.
- As the stock begins to boil, add the parboiled rice, seasoning cubes(stock cubes), curry powder, garlic powder, onions and salt to taste. Leave to cook on medium heat until it's done. TIP; The cooked rice should not be soggy or too tender and the grains shouldn't stick together either. You can Pour out the cooked rice into a wider pot and set aside.
- Heat up the vegetable oil; add the carrots, peas, green bell pepper and diced liver/meat; then add a little white/black pepper, a garlic, curry &seasoning cube to taste.. stir fry for 1 min
- The Rice is going to be fried in small batches, so you'll have to divide the stir-fried vegetables into equal portions. The size of your frying pan/wok will determine how many portions you will have. 7. Pour a portion of the stir-fried mix into the frying pan; add the cooked rice and stir-fry for about 2 minutes. Do not overcrowd the pan,make sure there is a little space in the pan so that you can move the rice around the pan for even distribution of heat.
- Repeat this process for the remaining rice and veggie mix. Now your Nigerian Fried Rice is Ready to be serve
There are usually a lot of prep steps in making Nigerian fried rice as all the vegetables are fresh; carrots, peas, peppers etc. I don't like prepping very much and so I cut out a lot of that. Nigerian fried rice consists of long-grain, parboiled rice or (Golden Sella) basmati, cooked in a fragrant yellow stock—thank you, turmeric—redolent with the flavors of warming curry powder and dried thyme, with mixed chopped vegetables folded in. If you wanted to take it up a notch, tiny pink shrimp (or prawns) and cooked, diced liver were. One of the most popularly eaten food in Nigeria is rice and Nigerian fried rice is one of the ways we cook rice.
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