{"id":149,"date":"2024-04-28T23:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T03:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/tastingmyheritage\/?p=149"},"modified":"2024-04-28T23:58:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T03:58:42","slug":"the-simplest-and-most-delicious-jamaican-rice-and-peas-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/tastingmyheritage\/the-simplest-and-most-delicious-jamaican-rice-and-peas-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"The simplest (and most delicious) Jamaican rice and peas recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi everyone and welcome back to Tasting My Heritage. For those of you that might be new here, I created a site where I can have my own digital recipe book so I can follow it later in life. My father is from Pakistan and my mom is from Jamaica. Growing up, I was given a lot of different foods to taste and enjoy, as they both are great cooks and always made foods from their countries for me. As a kid, I was mostly given Pakistani food, which is where my father is from. It\u2019s something that I eat more often and therefore I have more information on it. In 2018, I even went to Pakistan. For a 13 year old girl, that was an amazing experience and I was able to really see my own culture and meet so many relatives. Along with this, I was able to try so many foods that I grew up having in a different way. Pakistan is very different from the United States and although the spices are similar, foods made in Pakistan were of course more authentic. When my mom and dad would make Pakistani food for my sister and I, we were given a different version. Our version wasn\u2019t as spicy but it definitely still had some kick to it. The point of this story is to say that I\u2019m more familiar with Pakistani food and this week as we venture back to Jamaica, I feel excited to create a new recipe because I didn\u2019t eat this kind of food as much in my childhood. We had Jamaican food sometimes, but the majority of the time, it was Pakistani food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, I\u2019m going to show you how to make rice and peas! It\u2019s important to note that the \u201cpeas\u201d in rice and peas are actually just kidney beans\u2026 so don\u2019t be alarmed! This is a very exciting one for me because I also ate a lot of rice as a kid while eating Pakistani food. This is a twist on something I enjoy eating and it\u2019s a fairly simple recipe. This will be made using my aroma rice cooker and I had enough to enjoy this for about four days. You could also make this recipe over the stove, but we live in a more advanced world now, so if you eat rice a lot, or everyday, you should really invest in a rice cooker! Mine was only twenty dollars on Amazon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s get started with the recipe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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