Cookbook:Iresi Eyin (Yoruba Palm Oil Native Rice)

Iresi Eyin (Yoruba Palm Oil Native Rice)
Category	Rice recipes
Servings	4
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Iresi eyin is one of the Yoruba versions of a palm oil rice dish also called palm oil rice/native Jollof rice. It is more accurately described as a palm oil rice. It is different from Yoruba jollof/Yoruba Party Jollof/ Nigerian jollof, which is more popular. It is very nutritious and easy to prepare—all that is required is to mix the ingredients together in a pot.

Ingredients

• 3 milk cups of rice
• 2 cooking spoons palm oil
• 2 tbsp locust beans
• 2 tbsp dried ground crayfish
• Dried catfish, or any other dried fish, soaked in hot salted water until soft, then shredded
• Pepper powder, to taste
• Chopped onion, to taste
• Salt, to taste
• 1 sachet (50 g) tomato paste
• Carrots, washed and chopped, to taste
• Peas, washed and parboiled if necessary, to taste

Procedure

1. Wash the rice and parboil for about 8 minutes. Drain and set aside.
2. Heat the palm oil in a large, clean pot until the oil changes color.
3. Add the locust beans, onions, tomato paste, dry pepper, and a little water. Fry until the odour of the sauce changes and becomes more fragrant.
4. Simmer over medium heat for about 25 minutes until the liquid is absorbed and everything is cooked.