I just came back from Belize and a stay at the Rolson hotel in San Ignacio and had enjoyed their food so much that I am looking up how to make the traditional Belize beans and rice and stew meat. And that's how I found you thank you for your video.

My mom side of the family is from Belize city and she passed when I was very young, but one thing i remember is coming home from school and her making Belize bun and all types of food. I LOVE finding your channel because I was so young she was unable to teach me a lot of her recipes and I happy I am now able to make these recipes with your help for my husband and children. Thank you so much. Brittnany fentress

Hi, I was born in Belize and came to the US when I was 10yrs old, I follow you and have learned a lot. Thank you 😀

Thank you so much Rosalee. I tried making Belizean Rice and Beans for over 15 years and always failed until now.I followed your video step by step, and for the first time it came out perfect.The two prong fork and your water to rice ratio did the trick for me. I can't wait to try your other recipes. Thanks again.

Wanted to send you my compliments! Love your show and love Belizean foods. I had the honor of traveling with a friend that owns a deep sea charter service there in PG and oh my...........the food....its the key to my heart and soul and Belizean food just did it for me. Love your recipes and you've never steered me wrong! Thank you for bringing Belizean foods to my kitchen in Cincinnati, OH! All good things to you, Lady!

I love your cooking show! Thank you for making it.

You're representing Belize well my dear! Keep up the good job. You have saved my life. Rice & Beans (with Stew Chicken & Salad & Plantain) is the Sunday dinna so I appreciate you having this so I can learn. I'm 38 years old and I'm tired of fast food. I want my Belize home cooked dinna. Bless you for doing this. Its easy to understand. You do it step by step which makes it easy for new beginners

It looks Wonderful, cant wait to try this wonderful looking dish. Thank you so much. God Bless

This video from 10 years ago just popped up for me to watch!!! Great video

I really enjoy your channels. My Grandmother is a cook in Belize and I spent most of my life here in the U.S but you bring me right back home with all of your delicious recipes.

I really enjoyed this video, brilliant job. I'm from Grenada (living in the UK); Grenadians call this rice and peas and add green onions, cloves and thyme.

Hello Barbara - Although American, I have enjoyed Belizean food for over thirty years. Your videos give me the confidence to try these recipes in my own kitchen. Thank you for your clear and concise delivery. Keep up the good work.

Love watching your videos! Thank you for sharing. I live in Texas and we are thinking about moving to Belize wanted to see what the food was like. My mom is Creole and makes food similar to yours. I can't wait to try some.

+The Bare Pantry Show your videos are awesome, my wife and I live in Belize City but are of Hispanic descent and we love learning Belizean recipes. When we visit her family in Merida, Mexico we cook rice and beans for them. Love the show.

since 1975, been missing the TRUE magic of rice, beans an chicken in the alley. tried to make it off of memory, never the same. . . . TILL NOW! THANK YOU!FROM YOUR NEW FAN! GONNA GET THE BOOK! this flooded me with memories of belize, an the folk I met all around those parts! keep up the good work!

God bless you for making these videos!!

Looks delicious! Definitely gonna have to try this recipe.

Wow..I thank God for my grandma teaching me about the 1 inch measurement..with my finger..now my rice comes out perfectly..every time..lol..I'm definitely trying this rice and beans method..my last ones turned out horrible..lol..tasted nothing like grandma and grandpas...lol Your recipe looks very delicious!!!

Thank you for the beans and rice recipe. I grew up with belizeans in Los, angeles. And I miss eating belizean food. Thank you once again.

So loving your show. keep up d good work..

Dat dah how Belizean rice and beans look !!! Thank you for sharing !!!

Super Excelent show....many thanks for these amazing unique recipies! appreciate it.. Saludos! from Chetumal Quintana Roo Mexico!

Thank you! I love this recipe!!!❤

the soaking of beans came as a shocker to me too when I came to the US from Nigeria, one thing I love about the beans out here is that the stones are absent. I know how to make Rice and Beans Nigerian style, now I'll use your tutorial to help me make it Belizian style.

My mus was from Belize and she use to make us red beans on rice,but she would soak the beans overnight then boil the beans for about 4hr the next day,then add pepper,salt onions,garlic,bacon,chives,and ham hocks and boil it all for another 4hr very slowly,leaving it to sit overnight and when we came home from school she would serve it on a bed of rice that she would boil separately.. yours look mouth watering to xx

thank u so very much! am Belizean n one thing my nan never thought me was to cook rice lol so easy but so hard! I love our food and am glad some one is sharing to the world. cheers xxx

you guys are wonderful!! I can't wait to try out some of these recipes. My mother is Dominican and all of these foods are so familiar!

Viví con mi familia en Belice muchos años mi madre aprendió a cocinar muchos de esos platillos, todo delicioso. 👍

Hi, I actually use kidney beans for stew beans and white rice and use pinto beans for rice & beans. My mother told me that was how Belizeans cooked back in the day. I use goya's kidney beans, they are better and Joe is right when they are pinker they are better. I have to congratulate you on marrying a good man like Joe. He is the first Belizean man that can really cook. My father would come home, wash his hands and sit at the table until he was served. My mother still serves my brother =)

My grandma would cook this for me when I was younger. We’re from Guatemala 🇬🇹 rice and beans run through my veins ❤️

Hello Bare Pantry Show I'm New To Ur Channel Thank U For ALL Ur Wonderful Recipes!!

It came out perfect. lol Thank you. You're doing an amazing job. keep it up.

Beautiful rice and beans with some very delicious meat balls from the Belize city women.... I miss my country :-)

Asian rice rule, never open the pot until 25 minutes after it has been simmering (Boil 7 minutes prior then simmer). LOVE YOUR SHOW!

Thanks for the recipe! I will try this... although I will add the cilantro/coriander just at the end to retain the flavor, colour, and nutrition. :-) I love the scent of cilantro... it is heaven!

Wow! you made me smile today. This is so great....you outdid yourself. When you guys make the meals and they come out good, I feel so satisfied. Keep up the good work. :)

I made the belizean rice and beans with stew chicken and potato salad. everything turned out great. taste just like my moms! i live 7 hrs away from home. and now thanks to you it feels like home again. P.S. my girlfriend hates potato salad and now she's hooked on belizean potato salad. thanks again!

Every Central American Country makes Rice and Beans in El Salvador we call it Cassamiento also in Honduras and Hondurans make it with Coconut Milk in Nicaragua they call it Gallo Pinto. also Cubans make it they call it Moros y Cristianos.

Thank you for the video will try making rice and beans this weekened

muy bien. gracias por la receta.

thats how my grandma taught me how to cook rice when I was growing up in Hawaii. Rice come out perfect everytime.

Hi Markola96..So glad that my little tricks helped you. This dish was always so difficult to make for me so anything I can do to make it easy for others I try to do. Rosalee is my mom though, my name is Barbara. I don't say my name a whole lot on the show because I'm never promoting me...just the show. :)

Cool , I'm from boom went to St. Joseph's and E.P.York . Like your shows , keep up the good wok ...

10:32 Wednesday June 19 hungry for my life trying to make some rice and beans this was the only video that had every thing i had i hope it comes out perfectly

Hi streetball8. Thx, it was very rich and moist. We just finished it off yesterday.

I always follow your recipes back home here in Belize. They make preparing the food seem so easy. I've done panades, conch soup, i will do the fry fish tomorrow. Great job!!!

Nice , that is gonna be goood ! Love to see all that beans stock going back in there . I think few people actually do that ..

Looks delicious

Thanks for this recipe. Just got back from a trip to Belize with my family and they wanted rice and beans for a special dinner so I researched many recipes and settled on this one. I followed the instructions exactly and the one critique I had after making this is that 2 tablespoons of black pepper is WAY too much. It made the dish nearly inedible. And I love black pepper and put it on nearly everything I eat. I also like spicy food. I would suggest 1 tablespoon or maybe even less.

loooks sooooo goooooooood!!!

Good videos x

Hi Fitange, I always love hearing from you. Can you eat this one on your eating plan? This is the staple food in Belize. Took me a lot a years to get it right. Joe is The Boss when it comes to making this. Even my mom took her hat off to him on his skills on this dish. Joe can walk into anyone's home and see this dish going bad while cooking and take the pot over and fix the problem and salvage this dish.

Hi hun, I can't eat it no, I will be able to when I'm not so strict on it and I'll def be making it. Looks so good I was salivating watching you guys make it. Joe is the expert in a lot if dishes it seems lol I don't doubt he can whip up am entire 4 course meal in 30 minutes either. If your mom takes her hat off to the recipe then it must be exceptionally wonderful. Well done :-) I love watching all your videos you know that..

Hey just found your channel and subscribed....I am hoping to find some good stuff on here. Thanks for the rice tip! It is one of my hardest things to do correctly. lol.

Thank you, I thought you might have a link for Marie Sharps also ....:)

Gosh that looks wonderful. Yum

Hi Kenroy, Sooo glad it came out good for you. Check back because we will post rice and beans again soon . This time we will use brown rice. So glad to have you on-board.

We've been to Belize 3 times over the past few years, my husband loves to scuba dive and he lived there for awhile in the 70's. I made Belizean Rice and Beans awhile back and messed them up, trying to 'tweak' it here and there. They were good but very creamy and not the texture we wanted. My beans are boiling as we speak to your recipe, can't wait to see how they turn out! Enjoying your videos~

I'm Gonna Try This For A Fam Reunion This Wknd,,I Wanted To Know If I Dnt Hav Long Grain But Parboiled Extra Long Grain Rice,Will It Come Out Th Same??

Hi ,this measurement of rice is what my mum did too,and we r from India so see how we r simillar and also the southern part from India they make rice with coconut milk again the similarity

Thanks for the video! Where can i get your book????

Hi Barbara. Thank you so much for posting this! I just have one question. Once you combined the rice and beans and liquid and put it on the stove, was it cooking the whole time with the lid ON? Or do I leave the lid on just the first 5 minutes?

Definitely grew up having rice & beans with red beans🤔🇧🇿🙌🏾

Que sabrosa es la comida guatemalteca se ve riquisimo mmmm felicidades

haha u made me laugh with your dipstick pot spoon. good idea!

Thanks for this.

Hi TheBelizeanborn..you got me all worked up with mommy serving your dad and brother. My mom does the same thing. It drives my sister and me crazy. My dad knows how to cook a little too though and now he has to cater to mom during her illness. I've heard so many people say they use Pinto, but I think at my granny's house all them people knew about was red kidney. lol Joe hates pinto beans so much he would kill me if I cooked them for him. Personally I'm a Split Peas person. Will make that soon.

Literally just like Jamaicans lol. Sooo good!!!!!!!!!!

The only time I ever heard of soaking beans was when I moved to America. My grand aunt use to have us help her pick mud clumps and stones out of the beans in Belize the night before then she washed them and cooked them the next day. I've even found mud clumps in the beans here, but not the little stones.

Great recipe!... do know how to make cuttabrut?... or tabletta Oh!.. the trip is postponed till May.... so I'll look for the mixing bowl then. Was it the wood bowl you want?...

lol Sophia...it really works. Now all my white friends are cooking rice and beans and some Belizeans too. I'm always mad when I get grainy rice that's not soaked at parties. Everyone always ask Joe to make rice and beans when they invite us to potlucks. :)

It use to drive me crazy too, now I just give her a look, she starts laughing and make his plate. Her excuse is she does not want him to make a mess in the kitchen, LOL. Split beans is my favorite too, especially w/dumplings over rice. It was the first Belizean dish I gave my daughter and she loves it to this day. Every time I say I am making it, she wants to know if I am putting dumplings in it. I am getting ready to eat a tamale. I wrap mine in banana leaves, delicious!

Hi Streetball8, no he's from Sandhill, but I'm from Kings Park. I haven't lived there since 1982, but my parents still own the home there.

HI Fitange, Yes Joe can really cook great! He's been cooking since the age of 16. The way he tells it, "His mom had 11 of them and she put the task of cooking to his sister one year younger that he." Well he hated her food so he started to do the cooking instead. Pretty soon he cooked for that whole big family everyday. To this day his sister still can't cook to match him. lol

Hi Nency..do you have any recipes to share from that neck of the woods? People are asking for some type of candy with pepitas in the name.

@TheBelizeborn, I redid tamales for the show and tried to wrap one in the leaf. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it came out. I'll put that one up soon. You made me laugh, because mom says the same thing about not wanting dad to make a mess and baby bro (age 28) is left handed, so she says he is messy too. So glad all my kids are very capable and Joe made sure of that. He started cooking when he was 16 because he hated his sister's cooking after the mom had her do all the cooking.

I TRIED UR RECIPE FOR JOHNNY CAKES AND THEY CAME OUT EXCELLENT...THANKS....OH AND BY THE WAY I AM FROM ORANGE WALK, BELIZE

gonna share with all my belizean friends that dont live there anymore :)

ricin beans...the perfect way to send a man to belize according to our boy Heisenberg :D

No sé como hablar español bien. Sé un poquito lo que he aprendido en la escuela trenta y cuatro anos pasado. Quiero hacer un video in español pero no sé bastante español. Voy a tratar pronto.

Can one use a pressure cooker

how do you feel about pre-cooking the rice? not too much but to avoid the sticking for us who dont have thick pots.. then mix it together and then let it simmer? what do you think?

hola, tu receta se ve fabulosa, ese platillo me encanta, sin embargo haces tu video en ingles, cuando veo que contestas en español, me interesa mucho tu receta, pero no la tienes por ahi en español? en verdad la quiero preparar, felicidades y gracias.

omg I miss my Aunt's rice and beans. She just had a small stroke so she does not cook right now. I wanted to ask do you know the Pakeman family of Belize?

SABROSA LA COMIDA GUATEMALTECA MMMMMMM FELICIDADES

Good day, you mention a cook book, do you have a link to your book? Thank you, great video. Love Belize

Im cooking this for new years

Can i cut that in half and it still taste good?

Really? That's so shocking. See I thought I made this up. Very excited to hear that someone else knows this. I made the dipstick because my mom didn't like seeing me put my bony finger in the pot. lol

I'm just playing "what if" here but what if you have hands like Shaquille O'Neal or just huge hands in general? The water level would be completely different. I would think that water measurement method wouldn't apply.

Home n gardens carry really good pots for cooking beans and cooking period..just a litte 411

Is there a way to fix the recipe if I boiled the beans too long before I added the rice and the beans are too soft?

oh n my dad thought me that finger trick when I was eighteen yrs old since my white rice would be half raw and half cook lol. Ever since my rice came out good:-)

awesome recipe mate. quick question is cilantro the same as coriander or is it different

Can this be achieved on a rice cooker???

So, I don't need to soak the kidney beans overnight the night before cooking?? Thanks.

Cool , I think I've seen your hubby Joe before . Kings Park ?

Finger tip is true my grandmother told me the same way

My measurement is one inch above the rice and it alwas come out good. I also add olive oil to make the rice grain a bit oily.

This looks like Haitian rice actually. Just some differences when it comes to combining the rice & beans.