Moruga, Trinidad, just isn’t solely recognized for having one of many world’s hottest peppers, like those I utilized in making my tackle the World’s Hottest Homemade Peppersauce a number of years in the past. Having a vibrant Merikin group, the Moruga Hill Rice is world-renowned. Which they dropped at Trinidad and Tobago round 1812.
You’ll Want…
4 rooster legs (drumsticks with thighs)
1 lb pumpkin
2 onions
2 massive carrots
1 head of garlic
1 massive bell pepper
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon sea salt (divided)
1 tablespoon black pepper (divided)
3/4 cup Moruga Hill Rice
1 lb candy potato
2 tablespoons Caribbean Green Seasoning
8-10 cups water (or inventory)
2 scallions (chopped)
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
Notes! Please comply with together with the video under as way more is defined there, together with the best way to take away the pores and skin off the roasted bell pepper, the choice of shredding the roasted rooster vs reducing it into massive items with the bone on, and how one can add extra taste by utilizing rooster inventory as a substitute of water because the soup’s base. In case you are making this dish gluten-free, please evaluation the whole listing of substances to make sure they meet your particular gluten-free dietary necessities.
Combine the olive oil with 1/2 of the salt and 1/2 of the black pepper. Coat the rooster, together with the garlic, onion, carrots, and pumpkin. Roast on the center rack of a preheated (375°F) oven for 50 minutes (uncovered).
Tip the oil from the roasting sheet into your soup pot, then add the Moruga Hill Rice (any rice would work, offering you modify the cooking time), and cook dinner on med/low for 3 minutes. That flavored oil will coat the rice and, in toasting, give the grains a beautiful taste.
Take away the pores and skin from the bell pepper, onion, and garlic, give them a tough chop, together with the carrots and pumpkin. Add all of it to the pot and stir till nicely mixed.
Flip the warmth as much as medium, add the rooster items together with the Caribbean Inexperienced Seasoning, cubed candy potato, remaining salt, and black pepper.
Cowl with water or inventory (rooster or vegetable), add the chopped scallions (for added taste, chances are you’ll add a bay leaf and some sprigs of recent thyme), and convey to a boil. Then scale back to a rolling boil.
After 35 minutes, the rice needs to be tender and cooked via. Style and modify the salt to your liking. Remember that in the event you’re utilizing typical inventory, it would include a excessive sodium content material.
As you flip off the range, toss within the chopped parsley.
If you happen to wished a spicy ingredient to the soup, be at liberty so as to add your favourite spicy pepper or peppersauce (scorching sauce) after you added the water to the soup pot.
I normally serve this with my Pineapple Peppersauce on the facet, since Zyair doesn’t like spicy meals.
Supply: caribbeanpot.com
