Jamaicans eats rice and peas with most meat kind. It’s a loved dish by most Jamaicans. One of the biggest rice and peas day is on Sundays. Almost every homes in Jamaica cooks rice and peas with either kidney beans or rice and gungo peas (pigeon peas) with coconut milk. Jamaicans used the gungo peas dry or green. Both can go great with white rice or brown rice.
Recipe:
Serve 4-6 People
1/4 cup dried red peas or 1 tin pigeon peas. (Pigeon peas is already cooked)
2 cups rice (white or brown rice)
2 stalks escallion chopped or crushed
3 cloves of garlic or 1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp dried or 2 sprigs of thyme
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp all purpose seasoning
1 pack dried coconut powder or 1 tin coconut milk
water for peas or pigeon (gango)
Preparation For Dry Peas
(1) If dried peas are used wash well in cold water
(2) Soak peas for 2 hrs or overnight in 5 cups of water and boil in same water until peas is medium cooked
(3) When peas is medium cooked, add coconut and boil for 10 minutes
(4) Add all seasoning to the peas
(5) Properly wash rice and drain water off
(6) Follow Ratio of liquid to rice: (1 cup of white rice = 2 cups of liquid or 1 cup of brown rice = 2 1/ 4 cups of liquid).
(7) Add rice to peas liquid and stir once, keep on medium heat
(8) When rice is almost cooked and not much liquid is visible, turn stove on low
(9) It is not advisable to keep stirring rice or keep adding water (rice should be firm when cooked and not saggy or soft)
Preparation For Gungo (Pigeon) Peas in Tin
(10) Open tin, pour liquid off, rinse in water (this allows preservative to be washed off)
(11) Properly wash riced and drain
(12) Add the amount of water equivalent to rice as in (6) in a pot, add peas, coconut milk, and all seasoning
(13) Bring to boil peas on medium heat, then add rice, stir everything together once
(14) When rice is almost cooked and not much liquid is visible, turn stove on low
(15) It is not advisable to keep stirring rice or keep adding water (rice should be firm when cooked and not saggy or soft)
(16) Rice should be cooked and you can stir rice at this point before serving
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