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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Method. | 2. Add oil and butter in a heat resistance pot, then add the chicken breast, paprika, cayenne, onion, celery, green pepper, garlic and ginger. Saute for about 3 minutes. | 3. Add the chopped carrots next and saute for a minute with little salt. | 4. Add the tomato paste, tomatoes along with curry powder, bay leaf & thyme. Cook until tomatoes get slightly soft. For about 3 minutes until you see the oil getting red. Then add frozen veggies. . Add the rice next. Saute for another 2 minutes or so. | 5. Add 3 cups of vegetable stock/water, bouillon cube, required salt,close the lid and cook until 90% cooked, for about 30 minutes. | 6. Allow the rice to continue cooking until the rice is soft. If it is not dry at this point, then switch the heat to low to allow it to dry the excess water without making the rice much softer. | 7. If rice is still lil hard, add 1/4 cup water and cover with foil, which will allow it to steam through. Check back at 5 min and It should be ready. You want your rice not too soft. | 8. Garnish with cilantro/parsely and serve. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
rice	2	cups		1357.9	282.125	27.898000000000003	11.84
olive oil	1/4	cup		477.36	0.0	0.0	54.0
butter	1/2	tablespoon		42.75	1.9642	1.3358	3.6
thyme	1	teaspoon	dried	0.8079999999999999	0.1956	0.0445	0.0134
curry powder	1/4	teaspoon		1.625	0.2792	0.0714	0.07
onion	1		sliced	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
celery	1		diced	16.16	2.9997	0.6969	0.1717
green pepper	1		diced	29.8	6.9136	1.2814	0.2533
garlic clove	2 -3			-	-	-	-
chicken breast	1	cup	diced cooked	-	-	-	-
ginger	1/2		peeled grated	-	-	-	-
paprika	1	tablespoon	ground smoked	19.176	3.6713	0.9615	0.8765
cayenne	2	tablespoons		33.708	6.0028	1.2731	1.8306
tomato paste	3	tablespoons		39.36	9.0768	2.0736	0.2256
tomato	2	can	chopped pureed	124.1379	27.5262	6.4768	1.0795
carrot	1		cubed	52.48	12.2624	1.1904	0.3072
chicken bouillon cube	1	chicken		-	-	-	-
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
chicken stock	2	cups		172.8	16.944000000000003	12.095999999999998	5.76
water	2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
mushroom	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
pea				-	-	-	-
salt				-	-	-	-
cilantro	1/4	cup		0.92	0.1468	0.0852	0.0208

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.