This recipe uses the most popular beans in a Caribbean kitchen (black beans and kidney beans), all cooked up in a turmeric paste which adds extra flavour to the soft fluffy rice. Each serving ...

For Indian-inspired dishes, spices like turmeric, coriander, cumin, and garam masala can transform beans and rice. In Caribbean cuisine, allspice is used in Jamaican rice and peas (along with non ...

The other thing I have done with these beans is to turn them into a burrito. I add guacamole, salsa, brown Caribbean rice, ...

Rice and beans are often made to bring good luck to the new year. In New Orleans, red beans and rice are cooked and consumed with fervor on Mondays.

In my family, rice and peas were made with gungo peas or kidney beans. The ingredients for rice and peas vary from family to family, across the generations and islands of the Caribbean, but it’s ...