The West African Rice Dish that everyone should know how to make.

Jollof Rice, also known as Party Rice, is a dish that everyone should know how to make. It’s rice that’s cooked in pepper and tomato-based sauce that ends up being spicy and smoky due to a very interesting spice mixture in the sauce. I would describe this dish as subtly addictive.

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:29 What is Jollof?
1:35 Making the Jollof
5:03 Garlicky Chicken Thighs
6:31 Taste Test

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[fresh-fish]

I love that Ethan always points out the "idle time" in the recipe for washing up etc. because, to me, it's an essential part of home cooking that other channels don't really mention.
Appreciate the great content, as always!

[faithadogame]

Interesting take on jollof! Extra step that many Nigerians/other Africans use in their version: to get the famous deep red color to the rice & rich sweet taste, cook about 2-4 tablespoons of tomato paste with the onions at 3:28 (before all the seasonings). Cook until the tomato paste turns a crumbly texture (about 5+ minutes) and then continue with the rest of the steps.

In my version I personally use (sparingly) salt, aromat, curry powder, dried thyme, bayleaf, knorr chicken cubes and extra pepper powder if needed. Jollof rice is a must try!

[ifeoluwaogunkola]

As a Nigerian American who loves some jollof, thank you for featuring African cuisine on your channel, as it's usually forgotten on YouTube by a lot of the bigger food channels!

[SisiYemmieTV]

Well, you got the basics figured out 🙌🏾 Jollof is a staple!

[kaceynm]

As a Nigerian I now know his Italians feel when Americans cook their food…

All joking aside, this is a decent version of Jollof, we use crawfish powder in other things but I’ve never used it in jollof but I may try it now! You should try to make Efo Riro or Egusi stew next!

[mrkyle]

Thank you for going over the not commonly used ingredients, telling us what they taste like, and if they are worth it. I hate seeing recipes on youtube that use uncommon ingredients and then don't explain what they are.

[chasecomfort]

Major props for including 'cleaning as you go' steps. Little adjustments like that make things so much easier for the home cook.

[timiakindele]

As a Nigerian, this video makes me so happy to see on a Monday. Thank you for making this!

[krtyvkn]

I don't put crayfish in my jollof, but I'm impressed you did. That's advanced level West African seasoning. Lol! Cameroonians also put veggies and meat in our jollof.

[matteverhart]

I appreciate how you always give credit to the authors and recipes that inspired you, especially with dishes from other cultures and parts of the world. Keep up the great work.

[MiracleMadkins]

I made jollof rice last month for the first time and it has easily taken the first place spot of my favorite rice dishes. I cooked my chicken in the sauce too. Yewande has an amazing recipe. Her video is on here, y’all should check it out also.

[fortune]

It's so cool seeing this 6ake on food I eat so much. The way my family makes it is with a bit more of a drier texture, no butter and in a huge batch that feeds a family of 4 for several days

[nikkeyoloricooks]

As a Nigerian and a cook myself (and a lover of jollof rice😋), I just want to say a big thank you for trying out the recipe! It looks soo good and I'm all for people making/trying out foods foreign to them. I'm about to start a food YouTube channel (about me basically cooking majorly foreign dishes) and your channel is really encouraging me 🙌🥰

[DM-wocw]

I’m Nigerian living in Nigeria and I’m loving this recipe. That Jollof looks DELICIOUS

[LyndaOkoli]

Ethan you totally killed it 👏🏾 as a Nigerian this made me happy to watch. I personally don’t add cinnamon, coriander, crayfish, cupeb pepper or nutmeg to my Jollof rice but now I want to try out of curiosity

[DigitalJuggernaut]

As a Nigerian and long time subscriber, this video makes me happy. Thank you for showcasing our food to the world

*cough* Nigerian jollof is the best *cough*

[nwilliams]

I love how global this channel is! Keep it up Ethan, love learning about different cuisines!

[iTzMaJorTaK]

Jollof is such a contentious dish amongst West Africans lol, bold move to feature it on the channel but you passed with flying colours.

[mizbisi]

I loved your take on this! I'm Sierra Leonean so we use a different technique to make our rice, we essentially make a stew with meat, bell pepper, scallion, onion, thyme, and maggi cubes as the base and then use the sauce from that stew to make the rice. There's a little more too it but this way you don't have to make the chicken as a completely separate dish.

Also, a tip for those who want this less spicy, you can leave scotch bonnets out of the blended sauce and let them simmer whole with the rice to infuse the flavor without all of the heat. Another thing that I do if I can't find scotch bonnets is add some scotch bonnet pepper sauce (it's like a hot sauce) to the sauce and rice to get some of that heat and flavor. I actually prefer this method because the acidity of the sauce brightens the dish a bit and it's easier to keep a bottle on hand.

[GeneralWarburg]

To those of you making this for the first time, I highly recommend using a splash guard when cooking down the sauce. This stuff splashes up a lot.