Liberian recipes: Rice Bread

Rice bread

Liberian Rice Bread is a traditional Liberian recipe for cake made with cream of rice cereal and flavoured with ginger and nutmeg. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic

Ingredients:

- 50 grams of rice semolina (Cream of Rice cereal)

- 180 grams of granulated sugar

- 3 tablespoons of ground ginger

- 1 teaspoon of ground nutmeg

- 1 teaspoon of baking soda

- 1/2 teaspoon of salt

- 240 ml milk

- 180 ml vegetable oil

- 2 eggs

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

- 4 plantains, mashed (or 4 green bananas)

Step 1:

Combine all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. In a separate bowl mix the eggs, oil, vanilla extract and mashed plantains.

Step 2:

Add milk to the dry ingredients, whisk-in then add the contents of the smaller bowl mix well so all the ingredients are binding together.

Step 3:

Pour the mixture into a well-greased baking dish and place in an oven pre-heated to 180°C and bake for 35–40 minutes (or until done).

Step 4:

Allow to cool slightly, tip out of the pan and cool completely on a wire rack. This 'bread' can be served with coffee or it can be cut into squares and served as an accompaniment to a main meal.