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Check Rice

Name: Check Rice
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Liberia
Ingredients: 300g Rice; 1 bunch Molokhia; 8 Okra; 150g White Fish Fillet; 15g Dried shrimp; 1 Onion; 1 Chili pepper; 2 tbsp Palm oil; 1 tsp Salt; 500ml Water

Rice

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Jute leaves and okra cooked into rice — Liberia's green mixed rice.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Check rice is Liberian home cooking: jute leaves (molokhia) or okra are added to rice and cooked with smoked fish or meat and chili. It's said to be named for the 'checkered' look of the green leaves mixed through. It's a sticky rice full of good things.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At midday in a Liberian home, rice flecked with green leaves is spooned from the pot onto a platter and eaten with fish.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rice 300g
Molokhia 1 bunch
Okra 8
White Fish Fillet 150g
Dried shrimp 15g
Onion 1
Chili pepper 1
Palm oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 500ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Heat the palm oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and chili.
Add the water, dried shrimp, and salt and bring to a boil.
Add the rinsed rice, cover, and cook 10 minutes.
Lay the chopped molokhia, sliced okra, and fish on top and cook another 15 minutes.
Mix everything together.

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