How to make iwuk Edesi (Native jollof rice)
Native Jollof Rice or Iwuk Edesi is a delicious Nigerian delicacy. A very tasty rice dish that is most times ignored either because it needs a bit more ingredients to make than the traditional jollof rice or maybe the process sounds or looks daunting.
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 1/2 cups parboiled long grain rice
- 1 large onion (chopped)
- 1/2 cup Red Palm oil
- 2 Tbsp Tomato paste
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp bouillon powder
- 2 Tbsp Fermented Iru (Locust beans.)
- 1 cup okporo (dried prawns- remove head and tails)
- 2 Tbsp ground crayfish
- 1/2 Tbsp ground Cameroon pepper
- 1/2 Tbsp crushed pepper flakes
- 1/2 large Red bell pepper
- 4 cups Meat stock (or a combination of meat stock and water to make 4 cups)
- 1 1/2 cup chopped spinach
- I medium size smoked fish deboned and cleaned
Instructions
- 1
Wash rice till water runs clear. Set aside in sieve to drain while you prepare the sauce.
- 2
Sauté chopped onions in palm oil, add tomato paste, and bouillon powder. Stir to combine.
- 3
Add the crayfish, smoked fish, Iru, Cameroon pepper, pepper flakes and chopped red bell pepper. Stir to combine.
- 4
Pour in the half of meat stock and bring to boil.
- 5
Preheat oven to 400 F
- 6
Spray your baking dish with cooking spray
- 7
Pour washed rice into the baking dish
- 8
Pour sauce over rice and stir
- 9
Pour the rest of the meat stock in and stir. Taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly.
- 10
Add the dried prawns and Cover baking dish tightly with foil.
- 11
Bake on lower rack of oven for 1 hour
- 12
Bring out baking dish, fluff the rice then stir the chopped spinach enjoy
- 13
Wash rice till water runs clear. Set aside Prepare sauce like above but this time add the meat stock at once.
- 14
When sauce is ready, turn off heat. Taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly.
- 15
Pour in the washed rice, add the prawns. Stir to combine. Taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly.
- 16
Turn heat back on, cover pot tightly ( you can use foil) and let rice cook on medium heat for 30 mins by this time all the liquid should have been absorbed.
- 17
Check rice for doneness. Turn off heat, fluff rice then store in the chopped spinach. Enjoy.