LETTUCE BEANS AND RICE PORRIDGE WITH PEPPERED CHICKEN

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LETTUCE BEANS AND RICE PORRIDGE WITH PEPPERED CHICKEN


Beans and rice porridge cooked with lettuce leaves chopped and sprinkled in at the end of cooking. 
To cook beans and rice porridge, because rice cooks faster than beans, we let the beans boil for about 25 minutes before adding washed rice. This is to enable the beans cook soft and thicken 
together with the rice. If both rice and beans are washed and added at the same time, the rice might cook too soft and begin to burn while beans is still uncooked. Aside lettuce, other green vegetables can be sprinkled in the cooked porridge for green life and more nutrition.

This is green pepper, garlic, onion and tomatoes

INGREDIENTS FOR THE LETTUCE BEANS AND RICE PORRIDGE:
2 cups brown beans. (Black eyed pea can be used too )
1 cup rice
1 green pepper
1 small clove garlic
2 medium sized onion
1 large tomato or more
1 cup ground crayfish
Seasoning cubes
Salt to taste
1/2 cup vegetable oil to stir fry veggies
Water

COOKING DIRECTION:
1. With water covering the beans completely, boil beans with just onion and water alone. When it starts to boil, wait for about 25 minutes before adding rice.

 It looks this colour because when the beans was almost boiling over, we added palm oil to stop it boiling over the pot.
2. When beans has boiled sufficiently, add rice and stir. Then, cover the pot and cook on low heat and check frequently with gentle stirs so the pot doesn't burn. Continue to simmer until rice softens.


3. Stir fry the second onion with green pepper, garlic and seasoning cubes for about a minute before adding the tomatoes. Stir, let them cook for about two more minutes before emptying into the simmering pot of beans and rice. Add the crayfish too and mix. Check for salt and add accordingly. If pot is getting dry at this time, you can add some more water and adjust the taste by adding a little salt. 


4. After adding rice, stir and cover the pot with foil so steam stays in there and cooks through. You don't want to keep adding water while cooking this.


Chop lettuce and then cut across the chopped leaves to reduce strip length if you want.

5. Continue to check  by opening a side of the foil to see inside the pot and taste for doneness and taste of the cooking. When it's cooked enough. Turn off the heat and stir in the sprinkle of lettuce. Mix very well and serve hot.

A serving of lettuce beans and rice porridge served with peppered chicken.

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