The quantities of ingredients will depend on the number of people you are cooking for: 1 cup of rice per person.

Rice and peas

Ingredients -
For Rice and Peas
1/2 cup of black eye peas
Seasoning - thyme, garlic, black pepper, salt
1 onion
Coconut cream
1/4 1lb rice

Method:
1 - Soak the black eye peas over night.

2 - The next day, boil the black eye peas with thyme, garlic, onion and black pepper.

3 - When the peas are cooked, add coconut cream and salt to taste.

4 - Add the rice to the water and boil.

5 - Let the rice steam until the water boils out.

Chicken

Ingredients -
For the Chicken
Chicken -Allow 3 chicken drumsticks per person or 2 chicken thighs per person or 1 breast chicken per person.

1 onion
Salt, pepper, garlic
All Purpose seasoning
Lemon or lime juice
Cooking oil

Method:
1 - Skin and wash the chicken.

2 - Mix salt, lemon / lime juice, chopped onion, garlic and All Purpose seasoning. Make sure the chicken is coated in the mixture.

3 - Place in an oiled pan and fry until golden brown. (You can grill or bake the chicken instead of frying)

4 - Then place in an oven for about 30mins at a reasonable temperature.

Ingredients - For the Gravy
The gravy ingredients can be varied to suit your own taste.

Red pepper
Orange pepper
Onion
Tomato
Crushed garlic
Salt, pepper

Method:
1 - Chop the peppers, onion and tomato.

2 - Drain the oil from the chicken pan into a separate saucepan and add a little water.

3 - Mix in the crushed garlic, and chopped ingredients.

4 - Leave to simmer until the gravy thickens and vegetables have soften.

Serve Chicken, Rice and Peas with a colourful salad including avocado pear, lettuce, tomato, red/ orange/ green peppers and cucumber.

This recipe is excellent. i found that this dish is very satisfying and tasty. This is one of your best recipes yet! hope to see more caribbean food recipes in the near future as they are so delicious!

Lizzy