Rice and Peas - tips?

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Hi everyone,

At work this week we're having "culture week" so are doing lots of lessons linked to certain countries. Our year group has chosen the Caribbean and we are doing some food tasting on Tuesday.

As a result I have to make jerk chicken and rice and peas for 120 children :eek: - they'll have had their dinner so it will just be a "taster" of both, not like I have to make tons and tons.

Recipes online for rice and peas seem to all be wildly different to each other, and one woman at work whose husband is Jamaican has said that actually it's very difficult to make and get right.

Does anyone have any tips/recipes they've used? I have got an online one but wondered if anyone had a foolproof, tried and tested recipe.

At the end of the day if I don't get any answers I'll just make the online one - it's not as if the vast majority will know what it's supposed to taste like anyway :)

Thanks,

Vic x
 
Going to go with Liam's recipe. Am going to leave the pepper out though.

The recipe I got from the internet told me to use spring onions, not normal ones, so I've already bought them - will that be OK do you think? Just don't want to waste the spring onions as I've used work's money to buy them.
 
Liampope said:
Thanks for giving me credit for j.col's recipe :) :)

Spring onions should be fine - a common ingredient in caribbean cooking. The green part will add some colour. Probably sensible to leave the chilli out for british kids. Let us know how it turns out. Out of interest, what recipe did you use for the jerk chicken, and how was it?
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Oops!

Sorry j.col!

If I'm honest I just used a packet of jerk seasoning sprinkled over the chicken as it cooked. Kind of like doing a fajita dinner kit ;) Seems to have a lot of cinnamon in, it smelt strongly of cinnamon.

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Cooking all the Quorn, then the chicken, meant I had to do it in 10 batches and I couldn't be bothered with doing a proper recipe - I was there nearly 2 hours as it was!

Tastes nice - I'm sure I'll have some melodramatic ones wailing that their mouths are on fire though!
 
It was catching in the back of my throat - there's some chilli kick in there too!

Ingredients in the mix I used: Salt, Sugar, Cayenne Pepper, Black Pepper, Pimento, Cinnamon, Oregano, Bay Leaves, Nutmeg, Citric Acid, Flavourings, Spice Extracts.
 
Update:

It went really well, thanks j.col for the recipe - it worked out perfectly :) made 10 plastic tubs worth of it, plus a tubful without coconut milk (used vegetable stock as we have a few nut allergies).

I was told by lots of them that the rice was "bare nice" - this being huddersfield child-slang for nice :D

A bit of a stressful afternoon dishing out 120 lots of rice and peas, jerk chicken, tortilla chips, salsa, guacamole, johnny cakes, sweet potato and coconut! The kids loved it though - got a year to recover before I have to do it again!
 
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