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Try these super-delicious recipes for dinner tonight: jerk chicken with rice and beans, adapted from the fabulous Nigella Lawson
This variation of Nigella Lawson’s jerk chicken, rice and peas has a lot of kick
Do you love Nigella as much as I do? She’s gorgeous, she loves to eat, she loves to cook, she’s nice to listen to, and she’s gorgeous. And she also has tons of great recipe ideas. Two of which are what I made for dinner the other night – jerk chicken and rice and peas (which, as she explains, is actually rice and beans).
As usual, I’ve tweaked the recipes a wee bit. I actually forgot to add the nutmeg and cinnamon but I left out the red chilies and half of the onion on purpose. I didn’t have any rum (I drank it all), so I used whiskey instead, plus I had a green onion in the fridge so I threw that in, too. And, of course, I used brown rice, which I always have cooked and ready to go in the fridge or freezer.
If you’re not a fan of spicy food, you may want to add less cayenne pepper. I thought it had the perfect amount of kick – I could feel all of my pores opening and was just shy of being in pain. The creamy rice and beans were the perfect side to cool the palate.
This dish screams out to be preceded by a mojito (while you’re throwing everything together). In the absence of rum, I had sparkling water with lime and pretended it was a mojito.
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