Come Cook With Us: Caribbean Rice and Chicken

Thank you so much to Peterborough Mitsubishi for sponsoring such a fun series! I’m back with Dan & Lorianne, cooking up another delicious meal! If you’re running out of dinner ideas, stick around! Below you’ll find a list of ingredients and the steps to make Caribbean rice and chicken with mango salsa!! You can even

Michelle

January 29, 2021

Thank you so much to Peterborough Mitsubishi for sponsoring such a fun series!

I’m back with Dan & Lorianne, cooking up another delicious meal! If you’re running out of dinner ideas, stick around! Below you’ll find a list of ingredients and the steps to make Caribbean rice and chicken with mango salsa!! You can even follow along the video and cook with us.

THE BEST PART – Lorianne Stenson, owner of Algonquin Catering made enough to take to the Youth Emergency Shelter (YES) and delivered it them!

*Please note if you want to donate food to YES, because of COVID, they aren’t accepting prepared foods (that you would make at home, like cookies, etc.). However, they always accept food from restaurants/catering companies, as long as it hasn’t been sitting out at a party.

Caribbean Rice with Grilled Chicken & Mango Salsa

INGREDIENTS

For the rice:

1.5 cups of long grain rice, brown rice, jasmine rice

1 whole red onion diced small

1 whole yellow or red pepper diced small

4-6 cloves of garlic

1 teaspoon cumin

1 bay leaf

A can of coconut milk or 900ml chicken stock (optional) you can totally use water, vegetable oil, canola oil or corn oil

For the salsa:

Half of the pepper & onion from the rice portion of the recipe

Cilantro

2 mangos

Half a jalapeno (optional)

2 limes

For the chicken:

3-4 chicken breasts or 4 – 6 chicken thigh (boneless and skinless)

1 teaspoon chili powder
Salt and pepper for seasoning

METHOD

The rice:
Sauté half of the red peppers and half the red onions with 2 tablespoons of oil in your rice pot
Then add half of your garlic and cook for two more minutes
Next add your rice and your coconut milk, chicken stock or water
If you use 1.5 cups of rice that equals 3 cups of liquid
Add the bay leaf and stir on medium heat until rice is cooked

Mango salsa:
Stir your chopped mango, pepper, red onion, garlic mix adding in your halved jalapeño chopped (please use gloves when chopping jalapeños)
Now toss in your chopped cilantro and the juice of two limes
Season with salt and pepper if necessary and set aside

Chicken:
Cook and season your sliced chicken in a sauce pan on medium heat with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
Cook chicken until it is completely cooked through

Dish it up and top it with salsa!
You’ve got Caribbean Rice with grilled chicken and mango salsa!
ENJOY!!

For another recipe and cooking demo, click HERE!

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