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Rice And Peas Recipe

This Rice And Peas Recipe is a traditional West Indian dish consisting of rice and gungo peas. If you cannot find gungo peas in the supermarket, then black eyed peas are a suitable alternative.

 Prep: 10 mins.     Cooking: 40 mins.

This Rice And Peas Recipe serves 4 people. To change the number of people, use the drop down list here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 green pepper, deseeded and sliced
• 1 can of gungo peas
• 1 can of coconut milk
• 125g rice
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

• Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the onions and green pepper for 5 minutes.
• Add the gungo peas, coconut milk and rice. Season with salt and pepper and simmer for 30 minutes or so, until the rice is tender, stirring occasionally.
• Serve with liberal amounts of hot Jamaican sauce.