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Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup red bean, soaked
- 1 lb salt beef, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 6 sprigs fine leaf thyme
- 1 stalk celery, chopped
- 1 whole pimento pepper or scotch bonnet pepper
- 3 tomatoes, diced
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 3 cups rice, washed
- 1/2 pack coconut milk + 1/2 cup water
- 2 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tbsp oil
- 3 ochroes, chopped (optional)
- 1/2 cup pumpkin, diced (optional)
- water
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