- It's called rice and peas.
You still need to see the peas.
I don't count the peas.
There's about six peas here.
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- Hi I'm Leony from North Hanson.
And today I'll be tasting the rice and peas
from other Caribbean mums.
- Rice and peas is a traditional Caribbean food.
Well in Jamaica we say rice and peas
in other country say peas and rice.
- Well, it's not peas
before anybody runs out and gets a tin of those.
It's basically beans.
- Generally, red kidney beans
but sometimes you have gungo peas or black-eye peas,
or so on.
- Rice and peas is kidney beans, my girl.
There's no other peas you can put there.
If it's black-eyed peas, it's not rice and peas.
That's black-eyed peas and rice.
- I've had some horrible rice and peas
especially with bits of it are hard and bits are soft.
- People become mess it up, yeah.
(Lorna laughing)
People can really mess it up.
- I'm hoping that the rice and peas has got some flavor
that it isn't just the peas just with the rice plug-in.
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- Let me see what I got here.
- I think it's nice.
I think it's flavorsome
because I add a little bit olive oil,
a little bit of butter, some garlic to it.
- The rice looks good.
It's got that nice color to it
where the peas turns the rice a nice brown in color.
- The color is general rice and peas color,
what you would expect from a rice and peas.
- Where are the peas?
(Lorna laughing)
Just to (indistinct) on it, no.
(Lorna laughing)
- I'll give it a try.
- It tastes better than it looks.
I hope that doesn't sound bad, but you know
- The thing with this one,
they put pepper, there's pepper in the rice
and it's, they put spicy.
- I thought I like spice.
The rice is very spicy.
I put a little bit of squash on it, but this is a lot.
- Sorry, this person likes pepper.
It's a nice rice and peas.
I liked the amount of coconut rice in there
but it's a slightly too pepper for me.
- It's too peppery.
All the same, I will wait this one, five.
I'll give it five.
- All in all, good attempt.
That spice is hot boy.
Okay, I'm gonna give you a five for this one.
- I would score this as six.
It would probably be a seven without the pepper,
the extra pepper.
But right now my tongue is on fire.
- Yeah, good thing you give me that water.
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- I still prepare my rice how I saw my grandmother
and my mom and I still buy my coconut
and I grate my coconut.
I'm gonna go 20, I know it's 10 but I say 20.
- Okay well, it's a nice color.
And the peas are broken down so that's nice.
- It looks like the rice is similar to the one before
but you can definitely see that these are kidney beans.
I'm not sure what rice was used to make this
it don't look like basmati, it don't look like long grain.
- I can see spring onions and bits of carrots and stuff.
Interesting, let's give it a try.
I'm tasting a good amount of coconut again,
which is always a good, good thing for rice and peas.
- It's not a bad rice and peas at all.
- I prefer the flavor of this,
because it's not as, not as spicy.
- It's got a strong flavor of the peas, it's not bad.
- I don't know what that flavor is,
but it tastes like soap.
- The flavor is much better than before.
It's not overly spicy.
It's nice.
I give this a seven.
- [Producer] A strong seven?
- A seven.
(Leony laughing)
- I think I'll give it maybe a six.
Yeah, I'll give it a six.
- Zero.
I've got nothing to say.
Sorry.
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I think you need to get the balance right.
It's the mix of the coconut with a bit of seasoning
'cause you still need to put like onions, black pepper.
Well, I do.
I would give myself as solid nine.
- Not good, not good.
To be honest, this almost looks just like white rice
and they added the peas.
- Now the color of this is so different, isn't it?
- Yeah, it's a bit, it's a bit paler
but it could have done with a little bit more color.
- This is nice.
The flavor of the coconut is even stronger.
That's really nice.
- I like the fact that I can taste the coconut cream in it.
The whole thing needs a little bit of something
just to give it something more.
I don't know if it's a little bit of salt
or a little bit of whatever.
- This don't taste like rice and peas.
This (indistinct) like rice added with peas.
- You can see I'm liking this one
because I'm like eating the plate.
I'm gonna stop before i eat all on this rice.
(Leony laughing)
- It just needed a little bit more seasoning, but it's fine.
It's fine, you could eat that.
- I don't know.
This is not rice and peas.
It's just peas, you can see the peas and there's the rice.
I gonna say three.
Can't give more than that.
I'm gonna say three, three out of 10.
I'm gonna give this one a nine and a half you know.
That's how much I like it.
I really do like this one, nine and a half.
- I think I'd give it a six and a half.
- [Producer] You're enjoying that.
- I am enjoying this one.
It was really good.
It's really, really nice.
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I personally prefer a green gungo peas
which is what you get a lot of that
around the Christmas time and the Caribbean.
And that gives you just such a difference
for the rest of the time that you cook rice and peas.
- Okay, I like the fact that they've used gungo peas.
- Gungo peas we eat that
and it doesn't give me a strongest color as a kidney beans.
- It's not rice and peas,
if it hasn't got red kidney beans in it.
- The recipe is nice.
I like the fact that they've used the gungo peas
but I can't taste anything (indistinct) in it.
- This is either tin milk they've used.
I can't see that (indistinct) anytime in there.
- I want a napkin.
- I can see that there's I think mixed herbs
or whatever in it.
I would have maybe cooked the peas a little bit more
- Today
(Shauntelle laughing)
Okay, I'm gonna chew before (indistinct).
- This one is better.
I will rate this one, six out of 10.
Yeah, six out of 10.
- I think I'd give it a six and a half.
- You don't ever serve people hard rice.
That's called bullet grains.
And we don't deal with bullet grains.
Zero.
No ratings for this.
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- [Announcer] Due to unfair scoring practices,
participant Shauntelle is hereby disqualified
from proceedings and will not be considered
on the final leaderboard.
- Really?
Oh really?
I stand by that, that rating will not change.
- Mhh surprise!
(Heather laughing)
Oh thank you very much.
- I'm always trying, but you know
there's always room for improvement.
- It's a fixed, how can I not win?
Look what I was presented with,
look at their dishes.
No man.
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