Pelau

Ingredients

• Pigeon peas (in can)
• Okra
• Squash or pumpkin
• Chicken and or other meat
• Rice
• Tomatoes (fresh, frozen, canned or ketchup)
• Green seasoning
• Worcestershire sauce
• Bell pepper or pimento pepper
• Whole hot pepper with stem (optional)
• Onion
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Soy sauce or ketchup
• Black pepper
• Salt
• Sugar (2-3 tbsp)
• Water or chicken broth (if not using much meat)

Instructions

1. Wash pigeon peas and season with tomatoes, onions, black pepper and green seasoning.
2. Cut chicken and season with ginger, garlic, soy sauce, black pepper, sugar, green seasoning, tomatoes, onion, sweet pepper and worcestershire sauce.
3. Peel pumpkin, wash okra and cut okra.
4. Heat oil in pot add sugar and cook until browned.
5. Add chicken to pot, stir well and cook until almost done. Remove.
6. Cook peas for a few minutes.
7. Add washed rice (no water) and mix well.
8. Add water (~ 3-4 cups depending on amount of water in chicken) and stir.
9. Let it boil up, stir well and taste for salt.
10. Add chicken, pumpkin, okra and hot pepper on top, turn heat down to low, cover and cook for 25-30 mins or until rice is cooked.
11. Add more water if rice is still hard and continue cooking.