Jollof Rice Recipe

Instructions

1. Blend tomatoes into a soft puree and set aside.


2. Place meat in a deep pot and heat uncovered until boiling. Once boiling, cover and lower heat to medium. Steam meat for 15 minutes


3. Then, in a non-stick pot, fry steamed meat in oil. When these have browned, remove and set aside.


4. Add onions and fry until soft before adding garlic and blended tomatoes. Add meat stock and/or stock cube(s), tomato paste, ground white and black pepper and stir. Remember to season strongly because rice will later be added to this sauce.


5. Cook for 10 minutes on medium heat before adding rice. Stir and mix well before covering. Cook on low heat for ± 20 minutes. Add vegetables and mix well. Add about 1 cup more of water and continue to cook on low heat until rice is done.


6. Fluff with a fork and serve hot. When cool, store leftovers in fridge. The burnt bits on the bottom of the pan make for a savory treat!

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Research Component

Recipe Sites

1. All Recipes
2. Tasting with Tina
3. Epicurious

All Recipes and brief and easy to read. It is my favorite site for recipes because of the white space present on the site. This allows my eyes to breathe especially while I'm stressed during the cooking process. There is no essay of text to scroll past to get to the recipe, and this makes it easier to use on my phone as well.

Tasting with Tina's recipes often use a brown box to group topics such as FAQ, Tip and tricks, and substitutions. On this website, she even has an expanded version of the recipe where she adds pictures with each step. So, there is an 'essay' before the recipe, but it's a helpful one.

Epicurious is very well formatted for phones. There is the short essay section with the 'Jump to Recipe' button that fits the length of my phone. When I scroll down a bit, the recipe with the ingredients and directions also fits the length of my phone. From there, I can look at tags and comments.

General Sites

1. Met Museum
2. Font Awesome
3. Delmar Loop Site

The Metropolitan Museum's website organizes space well. It is divided into boxes of different colors and images that help draw the eye towards information in a hiearchy.

Font Awesome's website is fun and playful. Design-wise I feel like All Recipes is a lighter version of Font Awesome in terms of its tone.

The Delmar Loop's website uses boxes similarly to the Met's site, but I think that it uses contrast and color in a more interesting manner. I enjoy the rounded boxes in this site as well.