Jamaican Style Peas & Rice (Red Beans & Rice)

Name: Jamaican Style Peas & Rice (Red Beans & Rice) Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 200 min
Total time: 205 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 2 cups dried small red beans; 3 cloves garlic minced; 5 1/2 cups water; salt to taste; 2 2/3 cups coconut milk; pepper to taste; 1 medium onion chopped; 2 sprigs fresh thyme (about 1 tsp); 2 fresh habanero or scotch bonnet peppers; 2 2/3 cup jasmine rice uncooked

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Minutes to Prepare: 5
Minutes to Cook: 200

Number of Servings: 12

Ingredients

2 cups dried small red beans3 cloves garlic, minced5 1/2 cups watersalt, to taste2 2/3 cups coconut milkpepper, to taste1 medium onion, chopped2 sprigs fresh thyme (about 1 tsp)2 fresh habanero or scotch bonnet peppers2 2/3 cup jasmine rice, uncooked

Directions

In a saucepan combine - dried beans, water, garlic and salt.
Bring to a boil.
Cook, covered over medium heat for about 2 hours - until beans are tender.
Add the coconut milk, pepper, onion, thyme and whole fresh peppers.
Bring to a boil.
Cook, covered at a simmer for about 25 minutes - until rice is done and liquid has been absorbed.

Makes 12 servings.

Note - If you follow the recipe exactly this dish is on the light side seasoning wise, as it is traditionally used as the side dish to very flavorful curry type dishes. If you want to bump up the flavor I recommend adding double the garlic and thyme and increasing the number of hot peppers too.

Number of Servings: 12

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user SLCOLMAN.

Servings Per Recipe: 12

Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving

Calories: 252.2
Total Fat: 6.0 g
Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
Sodium: 40.6 mg
Total Carbs: 51.1 g
Dietary Fiber: 10.9 g
Protein: 8.0 g

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Member Reviews

BROWNING08
Regular part of Sunday dinner, just like home in Jamaica - 4/16/09
RAW135
Very happy to see west indian dishes are being represented on this site!!! Thanks!! - 10/2/11
LORTHOM2001
instead of using up too many hours/gas/electric/energy boiling the beans for two hours (although that is the cool old time way), one can also put the beans, coconut milk, scallions and thyme in a pressure cooker and the cooking time will be about half an hour or so. Then follow the rest of recipe. - 1/4/10
RENNAH
This is so yummy! Thank you! - 8/1/09
MSIMMS112
old time cooking....I too use skillion instead of the onion...thanks for sharing - 1/18/09
JAHKISSEZ
Real Jamaican recipe! I make the same almost every sunday, minus the onions tho, I add escallion. And i usually put holes in the pepper so the falvour soaks in. - 6/8/08
MKELLY72
I really liked this, and I especially like that it is really low in sodium. I didn't have red beans, so i substituted black beans instead. - 2/18/08