🇧🇿 How to Make Rice and Beans

Craving Rice and Beans? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Rice and Beans at home, in about 1 hr, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 2 cups long-grain rice
• 1 cup dried red kidney beans, soaked overnight
• 1 can (400ml) coconut milk
• 1 onion, chopped, 3 cloves garlic
• 1 sprig fresh thyme
• ½ tsp black pepper, salt
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• water

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Boil the soaked beans with the onion, garlic and thyme for 45–60 min until tender but still whole. Keep the cooking liquid — it is dark, savoury and half the flavour.
2. Do not drain. Measure the bean liquid and top it up with coconut milk to make 4 cups total for 2 cups of rice.
3. Add the coconut oil, black pepper and a serious amount of salt. Rice and beans tastes flat if you season it like plain rice.
4. Stir the rinsed rice in, bring to a boil, then drop to the lowest heat and cover tightly.
5. Cook 20–25 min undisturbed. No stirring — stirring is how it turns to porridge.
6. Rest 10 min off the heat, then fork through. Every Belizean Sunday is this, with stew chicken and potato salad. Note it is rice AND beans, cooked together — 'stew beans and rice' is a different plate entirely.