Adding pigtail, salted meat or smoked bones to one-pot rice dishes is a popular technique used to add amazing flavor. This Bhagi Rice with Pigtail is hearty, creamy and just melts in your mouth and bursting with flavor in every spoonful. A true Caribbean delight!
Bhagi Rice
Ingredients
- 1 bundle Chorai Bhagi cleaned and cut
- 2 cups Rice
- 4 C Coconut milk
- 1 lb Pigtail
- 2 Onions medium and small diced
- 2 Okras
- 3 Pimentos small diced
- 6 Garlic cloves small diced
- 1 cup Pumpkin small diced
- 4 Thyme sprigs
- 2 tbsp Soyabean Oil
- Salt to taste
- Black Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preboil pigtail until tender.
- In a medium pot add oil, sauté garlic and onions for 2 minutes.
- Add pimentos, okra, pumpkin, thyme and bhagi. Cover and allow to cook for 4 minutes.
- Include rice and pigtail. Stir pot making sure everything is fully combined. Add the coconut milk, cover and simmer for 15 -20 minutes on a medium flame. Note: Keep checking the pot to prevent sticking or burning.
- Test rice and add salt and black pepper as desired. Note: Bhagi should be broken down and rice tender.
- Serve hot and enjoy!
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We trinidadians do not put ochro or carrots,in our bhagi rice. A very little piece of pumpkin if you feel like but it’s bhagi rice not pumpkin rice.. and when done properly BHAGI rice is very delicious..remember it’s not pumpkin rice or ochro rice it’s BHAGI rice. That’s the 🌟 star 🌟 BHAGI
Very simple instructions to follow. Dont like ochra in rice but I was able tonget that stickness without it. First time making this and it turned out great. Tkx much!