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Belizean Rice and Beans
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kaelirebecca
"This is a traditional recipe for Belizean rice and beans. It is a staple in my country of Belize. Super delicious. The coconut milk gives it a very original flavor. It goes great with stew chicken and potato salad or cole slaw."
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Ingredients
9 h 50 m servings 168Original recipe yields 16 servings
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{{model.addEditText}} Print- Place kidney beans into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand 8 hours to overnight. Drain.
- Transfer beans to a stockpot and add enough water to cover; bring to a boil. Add garlic to beans, reduce heat to low, and simmer until beans are tender, about 1 hour. Mix onion, red bell pepper, vegetable oil, salt, and black pepper into beans.
- Cook and stir rice in a saucepan over low heat until toasted and fragrant, about 3 minutes. Add coconut milk, water, and kidney beans; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and cook until rice is tender, 30 to 40 minutes.
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Most helpful positive review
1/20/2016
hello! I'm Belizean American myself Miss Kaeli. We have a slight variation to this recipe in my family, adding a little chopped cilantro and we use the green peppers not the red peppers that y...
Most helpful critical review
2/24/2016
It's missing flavor. It needs to be tweaked.
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1/20/2016
hello! I'm Belizean American myself Miss Kaeli. We have a slight variation to this recipe in my family, adding a little chopped cilantro and we use the green peppers not the red peppers that y...
12/14/2016
Made it to go with Belizean stew chicken, but without the sweet pepper (either red or green) because my teenage boys don't love pepper. I did add just a bit of dried thyme. We just got back from...
3/1/2016
I took it a different direction because I was worried it would be bland. I used chicken broth instead of water, added cumin, turamic, more liquid to the cooking rice, and added chicken (but the ...
3/12/2018
Do you part cook the rice in water first then lightly fry and add coconut milk? I am a little confused. I think I followed the instructions wrong as it was a little too soft and rich.
7/12/2017
Make it all the time. I do however use black beans as kidney beans and I don’t like each other.