African Rice and Beans -- spicy flavorful rice and beans combo flavored with onions, thyme, smoked paprika and garlic.
Prep time: PT15M
Cook time: PT35M
Total time: PT50M
Rating
4.91 stars (21 reviews)
Keywords
beans and rice, quick and easy, rice
Ingredients
½ cup red / palm / or canola oil (I used ½ and ½)
2-3 garlic clove (minced)
1 medium onion (diced)
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon dried thyme
½ scotch bonnet pepper or ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
4 tomatoes diced
2 cups washed long grain rice (I used basmati)
2 cups cooked beans (black, red, black-eyed peas)
4 1/2 - 5 cups chicken broth or water
1 tablespoon salt or more to taste
1/4 cup crayfish (optional)
1 teaspoon chicken bouillon (optional)
Categories
Main
Cuisine
African
Steps
Heat a saucepan with oil. Then add onions, garlic, thyme, smoked paprika and hot pepper, sauté for about a minute, add tomatoes. Cook for about 5-7 minutes.
Stir in rice to the pan; continue stirring for about 2 minutes.
Then add beans , 4 1/2 cups of chicken stock/water, bring to a boil reduce heat, and simmer until rice is cooked, about 18 minutes or more. Adjust for salt and pepper. You have to stir occasionally to be preventing any burns.
Serve warm with chicken, stew or vegetables
Nutitrion
Serving Size: 1 serving
Calories: 487 kcal
Carbohydrates: 65 g
Protein: 11 g
Fat: 19 g
Saturated Fat: 1 g
Cholesterol: 13 mg
Sodium: 1181 mg
Sugar: 1 g
Reviews
Linda T on 2025-12-09 (5 stars): Delicious!
Anthony on 2025-04-11 (5 stars): Soon to be family medicine resident here — Immaculate, I have been using your recipe to make a modified waakye for years. I add more beans, more paprika, quinoa instead of rice same amount, more bouillon instead of salt (today used vegan bouillon as it's Friday in Lent), paprika not smoked, . Just made it again today... like I don't know if you know how delicious this is..wow. Quite literally one of my favorite foods ever. Thank you. God bless you
Suzan Vasica on 2023-01-06 (4 stars): Is it necessary to use so much oil? Seems like 1/2 a cup is so much lol. I love the look of this recipe and wanna try it but not with so much oil
Lara Croft on 2022-07-24 (5 stars): Wow! I admit I didn't pay attention and grabbed a half cup of coconut manna by accident, since I was going to use coconut oil. Oops. I then added about 5 tbsp of avocado oil because the manna started to burn. I also used basmati brown rice...and OMG. To die for! A huge hit in my house. Thank you for sharing..it's fantastic even with errors!
Brittany on 2021-08-23 (5 stars): This is my favorite rice recipe. I found it a few months ago and it has become my go-to dish. Every recipe I've tried so far has been great! This is by far my favorite website for recipes! :)
