SOMALI FRIED RICE RECIPE*
Bunch of fresh coriander
3-5 garlic cloves
1 cup Sella basmati rice 1/4 cup Vegetable oil
Chicken stock or vegetable stock powder Powdered food colouring (usually a tsp of
green and orange)
2 white onions
1 medium sized tomato
1/4 cup raisins 4-5 cardamom pods
1 cinnamon stick
Tbsp ground cumin
DIRECTIONS:
1. Start by washing your rice until the water is clear.
2. Boil some water on the stove and add the rice. We're going to cook the rice until it is semi cooked. It will start to appear translucent on the edges but white in the middle.
3. Drain the rice, rinse with cold water to stop it from cooking and leave to the side.
4. In a medium/large pan, heat up 1/2 cup (about 8tbsp) vegetable oil.
5. When hot, add the sliced onions. Leave to fry until golden brown. Make sure to stir them around a few times to prevent burning. When brown, strain the onions and place on some paper towels to remove excess oil. Leave to the side.
6. In the same pan, keep the oil and add the diced onions. Leave to soften. When soft but not browned add the stock cube and chopped tomato. Mix well.
7. Add in the cardamom (you want to slightly crush it first and count how many you put it) and cinnamon stick. Mix.
8. Crush the garlic and coriander together and add into the pan and the cumin powder. Mix again.
9. Time to remove those cardamom pods! Keep looking you'll find them! This is why we count them first.
10. Add in about 2tbsp water. We want to create a small sauce at the base of our rice.
11. Once the onions are really soft and translucent, turn off the heat and add the rice. We're simply layering the rice on top and not mixing! Make sure the sauce is entirely covered and all you can see is rice! Move the pot to your smallest flame/hob and lower the heat to the lowest.
12. Top with the raisins and the fried onions. And in the corners, we add in a tiny bit of food colouring.
13. Grab a tea towel, cover the pot and place the lid on top. Leave to cook for about 8 minutes! Do not open the lid!
14. Now time to remove the lid and tea towel. A nice cloud of steam should release-this is how we know it's finished! Remove the tea towel and turn off the heat. Leave to cool down, you don't want to mix the rice whilst it's hot otherwise the food colouring won't capture the rice the way we want!
15. When serving you want to use a large spoon and gently start mixing from the bottom up so as the rice and sauce mix in well together.
Serve and enjoy!
*This recipe was gotten from the YouTube Black Team but I'll add the name of the creator once I'm able to find her. The rest of the class cooked it with her during a live sessions but I did the Veggie Gumbo instead.
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In this video, you'll learn how to make somali fried rice. The Somali fried rice recipe is so easy to follow and I'm excited to be trying food from other African Countries.... Let me know if you get to try this delicious recipe! 😘
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