The most important thing when cooking is “mise en place” get all your ingredients ready. Chop everything that needs to be chopped and you’re good to go.

Blend the tomatoes, onions, tatashe (red bell pepper) and ata rodo (scotch bonnet/habanero pepper) to a smooth paste.

Blend the garlic to paste form and set aside.

Pour the rice(unwashed)into a bowl and boil for few minutes till “al dente” (cooked but firm).

Proceed to wash the rice after boiling.

Fry the tomato sauce with 4-5 cooking spoons of oil (vegetable or olive) and onions.

Add the tomato paste, let the tomato paste fry with the pepper till it thickens and small bubbles form. Taste for salt and seasoning. If it needs more, add more. Now it is time to add the pre-cooked rice to the pot followed by more beef stock and then stir. I then proceeded to add the white pepper and garlic here cos I wanted the whole Party Jollof Rice taste and aroma

While cooking Party Jollof Rice,it’s advisable to use wooden spoon to stir. This helps in avoiding clumping while cooking

Once the rice is cooked,add vegetables. In this case I added carrot and spring onions.

Put off the cooker and cover the rice with a foil paper. This ensures that the rice retains it's steam and trust me it does wonders.

Go ahead to fry plantain

Remove the foil from the rice and stir (with a wooden spoon as mentioned earlier)

Serve the rice with plantain or any other side dish of your choice.

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