How To Make Perfect Rice and Peas

By: Chef Carlton Hull

August 11, 2023

100 g (½ cup) Dry red kidney beans (peas)

 • 231 ml (1 cup) Homemade coconut milk

 • 263 g (1¼ cup) Long grain rice 317g (1½) Basmati rice

 • ½  onion Chopped

 • 2 Garlic cloves Crushed

 • 1 Stalk scallions Chopped

 • 4 Sprig of thyme

 • 1 Scotch bonnet pepper

 • 1 tsp Salt

 • 1.12 l (4.73 cups) Water

Using Canned Beans & Coconut Milk

 • 1 Canned kidney beans

 •     1 Canned coconut milk

 • 319 ml (1/2cup) Water

After the water evaporates you should put you burner in low

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Rice and peas is a Jamaican side dish of coconut rice mixed with red beans, perfumed with spices, and a whisper of warmth from fresh chili. Traditionally cooked on the stove but I find it much safer to cook in the oven as coconut milk has a tendency to catch on the base.

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