Thieboudienne (Senegalese Jollof Rice and Fish) Recipe
This traditional dish is made from rice, fish, and tomato sauce and is flavored with spiced onions, carrots, cabbage, cassava, and peanut oil.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 3 cups of rice ( broken rice)
- 4 large pieces of fish (of your own choice)
- 3 fresh tomatoes, mashed
- 3 tablespoons of tomato paste
- 1 bunch of parsley, crushed
- 1 large carrot, peeled and cut into medium pieces
- 2 potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 small eggplants, facultitatif
- 1 small cabbage, cut into 4 pieces
- 200ml peanut oil
- 2 bouillon cube or Maggi cube
- 4 bay leaves
- 4 peppers,1 tablespoon of black pepper
- salt
- 6 small okra
- 1 tablespoon of Yété , optional
- 1 tablespoons nététou (if available)
- 1.5l hot water
Instructions
Directions
- Mix the parsley, half the garlic, a little pepper, add salt and half a Maggi. The directory you can loot in a mortar or use a food processor.
- Then put the mixture into the fish pieces.
- Heat oil, add onions, tomatoes, tomato paste, the remaining black pepper garlic. Then fry for 15 minutes over medium heat.
- Then add the fish in tomato sauce.
- Add the bouillon cube (or Maggi ), with bay leaves and 1 cup of water.
- Then simmer until the fish pieces are cooked through, about 15 minutes.
- Remove the fish pieces and add all the vegetables except okra with 1 cup of water and cook the vegetables until they are cooked ( 25-30 min).You must ensure that the vegetables are ready before removing them, but make sure not to overcook them.
- Then remove the vegetables and add the okra with water.
- After 5 min removes the okra and adds the rice.
- Cook the rice over low heat, turning often so that all sides are cooked well.
- When the rice is cooked well it's ready for serving. place the rice in a nice dish and arrange the vegetables and fish on top.
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