Today, we're going to be cooking a popular Guyanese dish called Cook up Rice. This is a one pot meal that is rice based with coconut milk, beans or peas and a variety of meat.

Method: Soak your peas overnight.Any kind of peas can be used including pigeon peas, or black-eyed peas. Season your meat (chicken, beef or pork) with garlic, scallions, onions, pepper salt and ...

Today is Old Year’s Day and that means that homes across Guyana will be making the traditional end-of-year Cook-up Rice. The peas – black-eyed, the meats – the works, meaning a combination ...

Cook-up Rice is easily adaptable to suit the palates of all Guyanese. If you don’t eat pork/pigtail, you can make a beef cook-up. If you don’t eat beef or tripe, you can make a chicken cook-up.

Cook-up rice is now eaten any day of the week, but it’s still particularly popular on Saturdays, so eat like an in-the-know local by waiting until the weekend to sample this one. Editorial ...

Diaspora blogger Signifyin’ Guyana is bringing back traditional “cook up rice” for the New Year. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to ...

Rich curries, fresh seafood, root vegetables and fruits can be found in many of the country’s most iconic dishes. Metemgee (a vegetable and dumpling stew in coconut broth), cook-up rice (a one ...

The chicken and potato curry over rice is Mike’s favorite dish, a cozy, slow-simmered, overnight-marinated dish using Chennai-style curry powder that’s, you guessed it, imported from Guyana.