Wingin It: Jollof rice brings the heat to the Houston Texans – Buffalo Rumblings

You like football. You like food. So do we! So much so, in fact, that we smash the two together to bring you a Buffalo Bills-inspired recipe each week. Whether its a take on an opponents fave or some real mad scientist **** coming your way, Wingin It is the spot to watch. This week were prepping for the Houston Texans!

If theres one thing recipe sites are notorious for its voluminous entries that make you scroll for hours before hitting the actual recipe. I try to avoid that. Quick intro for the premise. Quick explanation on the tie-in for the week. Not this week. Buckle up.

Starting this series over (holy crap) three years ago I had a pretty clear goal in mind. I wanted to virtually tour the culinary world of NFL cities. As we started running out of cities I opened the door wider. At this point, season four of Wingin It is pretty much a world tourand thats awesome.

It was never just about food. Like football, food has the power to draw people together. How many people have thought that smells sooooo good and were compelled to ask a stranger What is that? I bet that number is incalculable. Food drives curiosity, and curiosity is good for this world. So back to football.

When Efe Obada joined the Buffalo Bills we got articles like this one, detailing his life story. Read it. Search for interviews. Its 100 percent worth your time if you havent already. It starts in Nigeria and ends...well who knows? The man seems determined to make the most of what hes been given and holy heck is it easy to root for him.

Obada made me realize, I know next to nothing about Nigeria. That led to curiosity. And now it leads to food. Jollof rice hails from Nigeria and appears for Texans week as Texas is home to the largest number of Americans reporting Nigerian ancestry.

So you get a long story this week to hopefully remind you of several things. There is good food all over the world. There are good people all over the world. Curiosity is a good thing. When all three come together, something special happens.

Note: Usually I create a recipe after researching many and taking the best bits and making it my own. For this week, I looked at several but loved this one for lots of reasons. Mine is different, but pretty directly based off of this one and the discussion on the rice itself is a good read. Author Kitchen Butterfly says about Jollof rice its that one dish across West Africa that is a unifying dish.

Makes: A lot. Seriously. A lot. You can halve this if you needActive Time: 60 minTotal Time: 120 min

Youll need: Blender

Rice6 Roma tomatoes, chopped3 large bell peppers, chopped (seed removal optional)1 large red onion (half chopped, half sliced)2 tsp curry powder1 tsp thyme2 dried bay leaves3 oz. tomato paste6 cups stock (divided and whatever type you like, I used chicken)4 Tbsp unsalted butter, divided4 cups washed, uncooked basmati riceSalt and pepper to taste (Kitchen Butterfly recommends both black and white pepper)

Sauce12 cup hot sauceRoughly 1 hot pepper3 Tbsp apple cider14 tsp curry powder2 Tbsp unsalted butter

This takes some time and a good many pans but its well worth it and youll have more than enough rice for a familywhich leads me to the main variation in my recipe. Kitchen Butterflys includes the heat in the beginning when youre creating the stew that will end up flavoring the whole deal. For many families there might be disagreements on how spicy dinner should be. So I went with one of the hottest sauces Ive done to date so you can stir in as much or as little as you want.

For the prep gallery, the first picture is showing the fact that we dont have a blender, we have a smoothie maker. It does the blending incredibly well for this kind of thing, but I ended up doing four batches of puree for the stew, and another batch to make the hot sauce.

The second picture shows the room temperature veggie puree with chicken stock. It kind of looks like milk and not super appetizing but keep pushing through. Its about to smell really good. The third picture is when it starts to boil and looks like something from Gremlins (which is the best Christmas movie of all time). The final picture is there to remind you whats on the other side.

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