Despite the name, the dish features rice cooked with kidney beans (referred to as peas in Jamaica), coconut milk, scallions, thyme, and spices. It’s a flavorful and comforting dish that pairs ...

A pot of soaked kidney beans is cooked until tender in water, coconut milk, thyme, scallion, Scotch bonnet pepper, and seasonings are added along with rice. Then the Jamaican rice and peas are ...