DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Rice and Peas
Lesa’s Jamaican gungo peas and rice combines pigeon peas with coconut milk and aromatic seasonings.
About Rice and Peas
Lesa’s Jamaican gungo peas and rice combines pigeon peas with coconut milk and aromatic seasonings. Her account connects the dish to the peas grown around countryside homes in Jamaica.
The rice has a coconut-rich flavour, supported by garlic, onion, scallion and thyme. Allspice berries and a whole Scotch bonnet pepper season the pot, while ginger is an offered addition.
The dish appears as a mound of rice with pigeon peas distributed throughout. Lesa pairs it with mains such as curry chicken, making it part of a broader Jamaican meal.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Rice and Peas
Lesa’s Jamaican gungo peas and rice with coconut milk.
- Dried pigeon peasBase
- Long-grain riceBase
- Homemade coconut milkLiquid
- OnionAromatic
- ScallionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- Scotch bonnet pepperSeasoning
- ThymeSeasoning
- Allspice berriesSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- GingerSeasoning · Optional
- Curry chickenAccompaniment · Offered main · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Dried pigeon peas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual6/81 explicitly gungo=pigeon peas, dry branch; no kidney beans.
- Long-grain rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual20/29/161 expressly offered best-suited long-grain option, no forced basmati restoration.
- Homemade coconut milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual18/89 prepared homemade component, full own manufacture unprovided.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Scallion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Scotch bonnet pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Thyme: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Allspice berries: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual104 whole pimento berries explicitly allspice.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual107/112–113 allocations consolidated.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual108/111–114 soak/cook/rice water consolidated.
- Ginger (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual109 optional, retained despite repeated method112.
- Curry chicken (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. First named served main34, optional parent; no full applicable own formula/link provided.
Origins & food traditions
Jamaica association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Jamaica
- Antigua and BarbudaCatalogue link pending review
- BarbadosCatalogue link pending review
- GrenadaCatalogue link pending review
- Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesCatalogue link pending review
- JamaicaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Jamaican Cuisine
- Vincentian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Grenadian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Jamaican CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Bajan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Antiguan and Barbudan CuisineCatalogue link pending review