• Category Archives: Rice recipes

    Kenyan Pilau Recipe

    This Kenyan Pilau dish is very common amongst different cultures and they also have different names for this same dish. The most common ones are pilaf, pulao, pilav, palaw but the Kenyans call it pilau. This is a very interesting rice dish in terms of flavours, it almost wants to remind you of jollof rice

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    Orange Chicken Stir Fry

    Hi Guys, I hope you had a fabulous weekend! Today’s recipe is going to be Homemade Orange Chicken stir fry, very easy and simple recipe and it’s delicious. I tried this recipe for the first time on Sunday, decided to treat my girls to something yummy; I hope you love it as well. Recipe for

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    Creamy coconut rice and fiery wrapped prawns – Nkem Odewunmi

    Congratulations to the winner of the Spring Chef Experience, Nkem Odewunmi. I first saw Nkem’s work in this wonderful Facebook group I am part of and was blown away. Her presentation of dishes is out of this world. I mean she could take even kuli kuli and present it like the most foreign snack. For

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    Stir Fried Quinoa, Brown Rice and Chicken Breast

    Some people may have heard of quinoa or not at all. Quinoa is a grain crop and the edible seeds are what many of us consume regularly. Texture-wise, it is very similar to couscous. I first of all heard about quinoa 2 years ago and it was the rave amongst food bloggers especially healthy food

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    Oven Baked Jollof Rice

    A discussion ensued on Instagram a couple months back about how oven baked jollof rice tastes better than regular cooked jollof rice. Personally I think Jollof rice cooked on firewood tastes better but in a world where firewood is not present and the fumes of the firewood are harmful to our health, oven jollof rice

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    Chicken in White Sauce and Rice

    First of all to those celebrating, Happy Easter from Afrolems. Let’s keep in mind the message behind the holiday. For a lot of people, you may have given up chicken during the Lent period and possibly even this weekend, you may have just been restricted to Fish. Here is a yummy chicken in white sauce

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    Pineapple Fried Rice

    One of my very good friends is so in love with this dish and is always raving about it so I had to make some. Isn’t it funny where inspiration for dishes comes sometimes? I had been planning to do this dish for a while but I didn’t have any pretty plates to go with

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    Banga Rice

    Every-time i ask our Facebook fans for recipes they would like to see on the blog, Banga rice keeps coming up. I finally decided to make it and it was absolutely delicious. I had a friend over today and she tried it and loved it. To be honest it reminds me of two recipes I

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    Rice and Beans

    Rice and beans is a winning combination any day. So I joined this amazing group this year on Facebook called “So you think you can cook” and there is a challenge this week to create a beans recipe. I started thinking a little too deeply about what to create, I started thinking along the lines of

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