This flavorful Jamaican seasoned rice is easy to prepare with long grain brown rice, callaloo, ackee, cabbage, pumpkin, carrot, peas, carrot in a seasoned coconut broth. This healthy version one-pot meal is a vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free and huge hit.
Because of my family’s love for rice, I have an amazing array of vegan rice dishes on here for you to try, Vegan Rice Recipes, Vegan Red Beans And Rice, and Spinach Rice.
Jamaican Seasoned Rice
In Jamaica, seasoned rice is a popular one-pot dish, seasoned rice is traditionally prepared loaded with vegetables, meat, cooked in fragrant coconut milk.
For a healthier vegan seasoned rice, I used long grain brown rice. Any variety of brown rice can be used, I love the nuttier flavor, the higher fiber, and the loaded nutrients in brown rice. You can use Jasmine or Basmati brown rice.
Jamaican Seasoned Rice Ingredients
- Brown Rice
- Coconut Oi
- Onion
- Garlic
- Green Onion
- Red Bell Pepper
- Thyme
- Allspice
- Tomato
- Carrot
- Pumpkin
- Cabbage
- Callaloo
- Coconut Milk
- Vegetable Broth
- Scotch Bonnet Pepper
- Sweet Corn
- Green Peas
- Ackee
Additional Optional Ingredients
You can also add a vegan protein like Baked Tofu Nuggets, Gluten-Free Vegan Sausage, or Jerk Tofu.
How To Make Seasoned Rice?
- Heat oil in a large pot on medium-high heat. Add onion, garlic, green onions, red bell pepper, thyme, and allspice. Cook stirring constantly until onion is soft.
- Add tomatoes, carrot, pumpkin, cabbage, callaloo, brown rice and stir.
- Add coconut milk, vegetable broth, and top with Scotch bonnet pepper.
- Cover pot and bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer for 45 minutes.
- Gently stir in sweet corn, green peas, ackee, cover the pot and cook for 5-10 minutes or until rice is tender.
- Fluff with a fork, add additional cooked vegan protein and serve.
- Serve seasoned rice with a salad, curry or jerk recipe.
Tips For Making Jamaican Seasoned Rice?
- Leave the Scotch bonnet pepper whole if you want to avoid the fiery heat, if you want it to be a little spicy then add only a small amount of the chopped pepper but discard the seeds. f
- If your rice isn’t tender after the time recommended, add a 1/4 cup water and cover using the method used in, How To Cook Brown Jasmine Rice?
What To Serve With Jamaican Seasoned Rice?
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Categories
- Categories: Gluten-Free, Vegan
- Course: Main Course
- Cuisine: Jamaican
Nutrition
(Per serving)- Energy: 240 kcal / 1003 kJ
- Fat: 9 g
- Protein: 6 g
- Carbs: 33 g
Cook Time
- Preparation: 20 min
- Cooking: 1 h
- Ready in: 1 h 20 min
- For: 18 Servings
Ingredients
- 3 cups brown rice, (long grain) rinsed
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 green onion
- 1/2 medium red bell pepper
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme, or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice, or 6 berries
- 1 small tomato, chopped
- 1 medium carrot, diced
- 1 cup pumpkin, or butternut squash peeled and diced
- 1 cup cabbage, or bokchoy chopped
- 1 cup callaloo, chopped
- 1 15-ounce can coconut milk
- 4 cups vegetable broth, or 2 vegan bouillon plus 4 cups water
- 1 Scotch Bonnet pepper, or 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 cup sweet corn kernels
- 1/4 cup green peas
- 1 (15-ounce) can ackee, drained
- salt, to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large pot on medium-high heat. Add onion, garlic, green onions, red bell pepper, thyme, and allspice. Cook stirring constantly until onion is soft, about 3 minutes.
- Add tomatoes, carrot, pumpkin, cabbage, callaloo, brown rice and stir.
- Add coconut milk, vegetable broth, and top with Scotch bonnet pepper. If using vegetable broth instead of vegan bouillon then you want to season with salt to taste now. It should actually have enough salt that when you taste it, it should taste how you want the finished rice to taste because the rice will absorb some of the flavors as it swells.
- Cover pot and bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer for 45 minutes.
- Gently stir in sweet corn, green peas, ackee, cover the pot and cook for 5-10 minutes or until rice is tender.
- Fluff with a fork, add additional cooked vegan protein and serve.
Can I make this in a rice cooker?
Hello KayT, It should be able to, I don’t use a rice cooker though.
I made this today and my brother and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. I Omitted the oil since I don’t cook with oils. Used 1/2 cup coconut milk instead of the 15oz. This will definitely be in our rotation. Thanks again you are a blessing.
I am delighted to discover this recipe.
Seasoned Rice is excellent 👍. Had it many times.
Sabrina, that’s so wonderful to know, thank you very much for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
Great something new to try.
How much coconut milk
No salt?
Philly, I fixed it thank you, season with salt to taste.
Thank you, it’s one can, I edited the recipe.
Family enjoyed it. Thanks
You are welcome, I’m so happy they did, thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
Can this be eaten alone?
Absolutely!