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Cook-Up Rice

Guyana

The Saturday one-pot: cook-up rice — rice, beans or peas, coconut milk and salted or fresh meats cooked together with herbs until everything marries — Guyana's family cauldron.

What it is

The Saturday one-pot: cook-up rice — rice, beans or peas, coconut milk and salted or fresh meats cooked together with herbs until everything marries — Guyana's family cauldron. Ingredients: rice, black-eyed or red peas, coconut milk, salt beef/pigtail or chicken, onions, garlic, thyme, wiri wiri, carrots. Recipe: 1) Simmer peas and meats. 2) Add coconut milk and seasonings. 3) Add rice; cook until it drinks the liquor. 4) Serve with fried fish or plantain. Serve: Saturdays and Old Year's Night (the New Year cook-up is tradition). Flavor: coconut-savoury, complete. History: cook-up is the Afro-Guyanese one-pot — kin to pelau and cook-up cousins across the Caribbean. See also: Pepperpot (Guyanese), Metemgee.

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