Jellof Rice

Jellof rice is a very popular dish in most African Countries, mainly West Africa and Ghana. It was originated from the Wolof People of Senegal and Gambia, they were known for their rice and fish dish which they called Ceebu jen, this is one of Sengegal's classic dishes that spead over most of the African conitinents in the trading days.

To make this dish, you fry some onion and fish in flavoured mixture, then cook some toamatoes and other vegetables in the oil used in frying the fish and finish it up with cookng the rice in broth from the vegetables.This is a basic way of making this dish and this is a smmilar way of making jollof rice. There are many varieations of making jellof rice in West Africa hower, it contains the same simple ingredients. it was also called Bnachin meaning one pot in the jollof language. As a very easy to make delicious food, was adopted by mainly Nigerians during the trading era among Africans. i It is known this day and aga as mainly a Nigerian dish. Nigeria have the largest population of every African countries and this makes it the most popular pepole who eat and cook jollof rice.

Jellof or Jollof rice as a delicious meal is easy to prepare, it has ingredients that are common in Africa such as fresh red tomatioes, tomato puree, red onion, red paper, salt, species such as curry, thym, etc and can be prepared with either fish, meat or chicken. jollof rice have become a traditional food for Nigerians, it is made in almost every occasion or ceremonies such as Weddings, birthdays, festivals, funerals, and other kinds of occations for both Igbos, Yoruba's, Hausas and other ethnics. There can be other forms of cooking rice such as rice and stew, fried rice and coconut rice, but jellof rice became the most famous, familiar and easiest one to cook. Both children and adults easily fall for it because it looks very delicious after cooking and not too complicated with different kind of vegitables because a lot of children will not be impressed.

The most familiar is jellof rice and chicken. The cooker have a choice of other meat such as goat, lamb, cow meat or fish, however for occasions, the most popular is the jellof rice and chicken version which looks veryn appestising.

Today, how to make jellof rice have cirulated to many foreign contries through Nigerians. Nigerians all over the world try to make the dish in which ever way they can, they also encourage friends of other origin and ethnic groups to try the dish. Nigerian jellof rice have become a very huge dish, as people of other origin enjoy and are now more aware of the dish.

(I will write more about jellof rice in the future)