Caribbean pelau with kidney beans & spinach from Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food (page 56) by Julia Turshen

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  • molly17659 on February 19, 2025

    I love this dish. I've made it many times and it checks a lot of boxes - one pot, mostly hands off, mostly pantry items/things I always have on hand and shockingly vegan.

  • mdagl on December 17, 2022

    This was not a winner for us, but it likely was my error. The rice's texture wasn't quite right for us, and I wasn't a big fan of the coconut milk in this.

  • anya_sf on August 26, 2022

    I won't rate this since I made a combination of this and the original chicken pelau, using a can of black-eyed peas and 1 lg chicken breast instead of kidney beans. Seasoned the chicken with paprika and garlic powder per the other recipe. Everything else was per this recipe. We thought this was fine, but lacking in flavor (and the sugar did get pretty black). I ended up adding more salt, some thyme, and lots of hot sauce - then it was pretty good. Served with chopped cucumber and tomato for much-needed crunch.

  • VineTomato on November 11, 2021

    Burning the sugar was a new and interesting technique for me, and on Julia's advice you just need to "trust!". It produces a lovely depth of flavour, even if it is a tad on the sweet side. Mr VT loved this dish, I thought it was okay. This is a riff on the chicken pelau in Small Victories based on what Jennie, her babysitter made for her while she was growing up. I think I will try that one next.

  • dc151 on October 17, 2021

    Another winner from Julia! So good, and not time consuming. Plus, practically a cupboard meal for me- made it to use up some spinach. The girls who don't eat went for multiple rounds of this one. Plus, a sneaky way to get in that spinach.

  • julesamomof2 on August 24, 2021

    Loved this dish- very flavorful, and aside from all the chopping, not overly time consuming to make. This is one of those 'I can't believe it's vegan' dishes. I only used one can of beans, as that is what I had, and a bag of baby spinach is 8 oz, not 10, so used that. Will repeat!

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