Guyanese Cook Up Rice

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups par-boil rice or 3 cups long grain rice
• 1 lb salt beef (cut up) or 1 lb pig, tail (cut up)
• 1 onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk
• 1 tomato
• 1 sprig fresh thyme
• 4 cups water
• 1 cup gungo black-eyed peas or 1 cup any favorite type beans
• seasoning salt, to taste
• black pepper, to taste
• 1 scotch bonnet pepper (optional)

Recipe

• 1 bring water to a boil, add peas. cook until soft.
• 2 in another pot boil the pig tail or salt beef until most of the salt is removed.
• 3 drain the pig tail or salt beef from water and set aside.
• 4 to the water, add chopped onion, garlic, thyme, tomatoes, meat, coconut milk or creme, pepper,and rice. bring to a boil then lower heat and cover pot to steam rice for 30 minute.
• 5 add the peas and pig tail or salt beef to the rice and serve.