Red, Green and Gold Coconut Rice

Name: Red, Green and Gold Coconut Rice
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Jamaica
Ingredients: 400 ml. can coconut milk; 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into 2 cm (¾ in) dice; 1 canful of long-grained rice (measure this using the empty coconut-milk can); salt and black pepper; 1 hot red chilli (ideally Scotch Bonnet), deseeded and finely chopped; 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and cut into 2 cm (¾ in) dice; 1 green pepper, deseeded and cut into 2 cm (¾ in) dice; few thyme sprigs

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

Sometimes you. want a more colourful rice dish to dub up a plain piece of chicken or fish. Here’s a really simple way to do this, using the Rasta colours of red, green and yellow, or as we say, gold. Use an empty coconut-milk can as a measure for your rice.

Ingredients

1 canful of long-grained rice (measure this using the empty coconut-milk can)
1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into 2 cm (¾ in) dice

Americas
Jamaica
Main course
Spicy
Vegetarian
Caribbean
Gluten-free

Method

Tip the rice into a bowl and cover with cold water. Leave to soak for 30 minutes, then rinse it really well and drain.
Put all the ingredients in a saucepan that has a tight-fitting lid and add 400 ml (14