International Calendar 2014 - Jamaica Recipes - Rice and Peas

Ingredients

• 1 can of tinned or 1 cup of fresh red peas (either kidney beans or pigeon peas)
• 5 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)
• 1 uncut scotch bonnet pepper (1 jalapeno pepper may be used as a substitute)
• 3 Scallion (spring onions may be used as a substitute)
• 1 tin (or one cup) of coconut milk
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of black pepper
• 2 sprigs of fresh thyme (2 teaspoons of dried thyme may be used as a substitute)