I'm Jamaican and I know we tend to use browning on meats (my household more used soy sauce as a browning agent). It was when I went to University in Barbados that I learnt about using caramelized sugar as browning. Nothing wrong with using the different methods. Ppl need to be more respectful of other options/methods of cooking. To each his own 😊

As a born and raised Trinidadian now living in London, I can say with confidence that we use brown sugar to brown our meat. Anyone trying to tell you about your culture needs to check themselves. Also, their is more than one way to make a recipe fabulous!!!

I'm a Jamaican, still living in Jamaica. As a child growing up my grandmother would brown the sugar in a pan an tip a little bit of water to it. Nowadays we use browning or soya or chinese sauce to get that colour. To each it own, in other words the choice is urs

In my family (from South Carolina) we brown flour instead of sugar. But people use what they grew up with. Or what they enjoy and it's all good. I like seeing a different way to cook a dish. That just gives me something different to try. Your dish looks delicious. Thanks for sharing! Congratulations on the new baby! Hope you and the baby are doing well. Stay blessed!!!

I’m Nigerian and I must say that I love your channel and I am definitely trying this recipe soon . I love your voice as well.

We lucians love to burn our sugar. That smoky tatstes is unbeatable. U are certainly not rude. I rarely use browning

You are correct in using the sugar. Depending on the island you can use browning or the burnt sugar . Continue to cook the way you was taught. Love your recipies

I am from jamaica, love how you cook, I am a good cook and I use your ideas too. We are from the Caribbean, it all works. Like the sugar idea instead of the browning too.

Loved this video! You weren’t rude at all. In Jamaica we use browning or soy sauce in meats. However, I’ve learned from friends that every Caribbean does something different. I wish people would be more open before criticizing. I’m definitely going to make this recipe.

Yes, I use brown sugar to brown my meats too, I've used the browning too and it really doesn't matter which one you use, it's a preference and I prefer the brown sugar. You keep doing you sweetie

I am from St Lucia, living in the US Virgin Islands, I love your recipes very easy to follow. Congratulations on your new born baby boy. Grandma must be excited.

We in Trinidad use this method of browing meat. This is how I grow up knowing how to brown meat. Ppl may use different methods, but imma stick to this method.

I'm from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 and we make pelau all the time, and that's exactly how we brown our pelau...That's how browning is made. Your pelau came out very nice.

Listening from st Vincent and the Grenadines... Your step by step, that's how we Brown the the chicken using oil and brown sugar. 🙏.. Food wonderful food.

Thank thank you. for the past 24 years i wanted to learn how to do this. Loving the INTRO. Congrats on your bundle of joy.

Terri-Ann i am with you. I like using my sugar instead of the browning. I am old school like my mom. I love your cooking but i don't like the coconut milk in the can. I buy the coconut and blend it, it gives the food a better flavor than the can coconut milk. Your cocking is always perfect. Love the way you explain everything and you take your time. Have a bless night. Regards Petra

I always use Sugar. You were not rude for asking. Thank you for all your yummy recipes. 😋

I’m loving this recipe Terri-Ann’s everything cook to perfection❤️🙌🏾

Wow, always very beautiful and delicious meals. Listen Ms. Terri- Ann u are a beautiful person inside and out. I am also a Jamaican and I use sugar to brown my meats, and I prefer using it than the browning so don't listen to naysayers and u do you mama. A cook dem can't cook. Blessings always. Love, love ur meals and always a blessing to watch u cook.

This dish is one of my favorite Caribbean dishes. Someone who is from Triadad cooked it. I fell in love with this dish that was about 7 years ago haven't had it since. I am delighted you are making this dish now I can try to make it myself with fried plantain. Thanks.

Thank you for the recipe! You wasn't rude at all, the person was rude and instead of accepting that they were loud and wrong, the tried to flip it back on you, these people are very rude and weird. Congrats also on your new baby boy

Learnt something new. And honestly this is way easier. Than the deep frying the chicken method. Looks very delicious 😋

Just came across your channel. This looks yummy. We have a similar dish in Kenya, we call it PILAU, meat and mix of spices called pilau masala, then add rice... you can try it next time and see if you like it ❤.

Made this last night 👌👌👌 it was soooo good. Can't wait to make it again. I love doing your recipes as they are so easy to follow and tastes amazing! Offers something different xx

Beautiful beautiful beautiful! 🥰 You always come through with your dish's Terri Anne!

You honestly read my mind. I've been cravinggg pelau for so long and now I can finally do it 😩 That plate looks sooo good omg

I'm a trinidadian and we definitely use the oil and sugar method when stewing our chicken

Sakafet bel tifi. Loved the simplicity of this recipe. Will definitely be trying mid week. My dear browning by sugar is nothing new. Before the invention of browning sauce this is how we did it. I'm 2nd generation British born (1961 baby). My mother taught me this method which was passed down to her from our ancestors! Keep doing what you do best. Cuddles to your baby 😘

Everyone has their own way of cooking and we should respect it . Lovely food enjoy watching you cook delicious food !! 😊❤️

Real cooks know how to improvise with ingredients...🇯🇲

I’ll never stop using sugar to stew stuff 💗 I enjoyed your recipe!

You weren't rude at all. The person was just being close minded. Anyway we from the Caribbean we hardly use bottled browning

Listen terry your not wrong,I grow up with my grandma brown sugar until today, I still feel better browning the sugar,as browning you just have to be careful not to let it get burnt so it doesn’t get bitter,you do great job.

We Trini’s use brown sugar as well! We also have browning but to each their own! There is NO wrong way to AMAZING FOOD. Always enjoying your videos !!!!

Pelau is a dish of Afro Trinidad & Tobago origins. It is T&T's version of the "Caribbean Rice and Peas/Beans Pilaf ". Caribbean integration has lead to the dish being transferred to other islands where the original recipe is used or there may be a variation of the ingredients/method. Other rice dishes in T&T are called "Cook-ups" .

Wow dinner idea..I'm from St.Lucia and I love ur channel and food recipes

U cook exactly how my mom cook when I was growing up..

Team dry. This looks so delicious. It was soothing for me to just watch you season the meat.😁

Got the Gyptian playing in the background. Always good vibes from you. Love your energy!

Much love from St Lucia 🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨. Your cooking is so easy to follow. God blessings

Congratulations on the new edition to the family and thanks for the recipe 💕

Hi Terri-Anne, In regards to the 'BROWNING' comment a viewer made, yes, we all do things differently. No, you don't have to add Browning, browning simply does what it says on the bottle! It just BROWNS the look of your meat; which is more aesthetically pleasing and appetizing to Afrocaribbean people. With your method Terri-Anne, you are ADDING FLAVOUR to your dish; which is USEFUL and DELICIOUS! I have, since a young girl, been adding sugar to my dishes; which has always been appreciated by those who have eaten my dishes, so you go girl! In regards to the use of WASHING UP LIQUID on meat, I totally disagree with that also, however, I DO use the most tiniest amount of washing up liquid to wash my fruit & vegetables ( THE SIZE OF A GREEN PEA SLICED IN HALF) the reason I do that is because I did a small experiment at home where I washed half my fruit & vegetables with plain water and the other half with a very thin film of the washing up liquid coated on my hands. The residue of dirt that then came off my fruit & veg was shocking! The soap liquid died immediately; like it would if your hair had shampoo and the dirt in your hair killed the bubbles, but on the second wash, there would be loads of bubbles because your hair is now more cleaner, well with my veg, they were only given one wash with the liquid and what it does is, it removes the thin layer of pesticides that are sprayed onto the productthen when i rinsed my vegetables, they were squeaky clean and looked much more cleaner than the ones just rinsed with plain water.

In St.Lucia, we caramelize the sugar as a browning method. The store bought browning is just that, store bought. You were not rude and some people need to respect various methods of cooking. There are several ways to get the same result.

Jamaican I'm the house!!!! You know us Caribbean people brings biggggg flavours when we're cooking. I had to watch twice because I couldn't get over how delicious that meal looked. And no you weren't being rude that person clearly don't know how to cook and maybe if you had told them it's sugar that mare browning they would still have something else to say, so you sent them in the right direction

Wow lady you sure can cook I know that thus recipe is so tasty delicious 😋thank you for sharing 😊

The brown sugar is so much better... I’ve learnt it from looking at these cooking channel and it stuck with me ever since ... best way ...

the sugar is the right way 🇧🇧

Hello there. A friend of mine told me about your channel and I'm glad that I decided to check out your channel. I am blown away by the wide array of fantastically presented creations. I had to stop myself from licking my computer monitor. 🤣🤣 All joking aside. This pelau is 🔥 and paired with the coleslaw & zaboca.... What's not to like?. I love the combination of ingredients & seasonings. Thanks so much for allowing me into your kitchen. Sandee

You weren't rude sis 🤣 they just salty cause they didn't know what they were talking about.

My mother always started stew with oil and brown sugar. I still do. Barbados.

Looks amazing good one and that's the way I brown my chicken

We use sugar to brown meat too.. Love pelau, one of my fav dishes 💕

Thats exactly how i brown my chicken...the taste man!

Great video well done my friend beautiful chicken..

My cousin over cooked sugar cakes once and Mummy used that burned coconut and sugar as browning for weeks! 🙂 Cave Hill, UWI 🙌🏾✌🏾

Bay leaf and thyme is what I love to add to mine.

I love the Intro and the plating, @Terri-Ann. ❣️

This came up in my feed and I was like "who's making pelau?!" so had to watch. My parents are from Dominica 😊

I can tell u r a very clean and neat lady. Big it up sis. Nice dish thank u

Browning sugar is the traditional way of making the chicken brown in stew chicken. That person must be young. Anyways, this looks delicious!

Terrie Ann how's your little baby getting on? Hope he's a contented baby n doing well! 😁

Looks sooo good...im gonna try it...hope it comes out like yours

I’ve never made Pelau before being from Jamaica, definitely going to make this recipe.

It's OK that looks so delicious and yummy and nice

That's a nice dinner. I need a plate

Oh I can’t with you 😩 I’m trying to lose weight but this looks so amazing I’m gonna make it 🥰😍. To be honest I thought before there was brownie in the bottle it was brown sugar.

Can you do a green papaya salad girl that chicken and rice looks delicious and I use brown sugar and browning when I make my brown stew chicken it’s to each own , it’s all about the flavor

This is not only yummy by looks, but I have tried personally and it got more yummy. Thank so much, keep giving us more videos.

My dear you are not rude we all prepare our meet different I use Brown sugar for my meat and fish for a good flavor and color You are a wonderful cook a job well done Keep cooking thanks 👍 for sharing ☺️

Great recipe. I bought your book. Love your cooking and my family loves it too!❤️👍🏾🇨🇦

Terri Ann I just came in from work and I need some of this food rite now am really hungry 😂looks so yummy 😋

Looks amazing Terri😋😋😋. My family goes back and forth between brown sugar and browning. I am loving the family friendly quick meals. Looking forward to more whenever you have time but no rush.... Enjoy the family💕💕💕💕

Very nice.. More blessings to you

Right, I’m with you you were not rude at all! So many opinions and so many not asked for. Lol Live you Gal!

Beautiful plate of food . Wish u were in Jamaica I have plantains on my family farm only green thou .

In Antigua and Barbuda, we use both methods to get that beautiful brown colour... So you know what you are saying and doing

Happy Friday 🤗, Congratulations on the baby ❤️🥰, Ur cooking always looks good, Have a good weekend TFS Blessing 😘

My mother is from the Virgin islands of Saint Thomas. The recipe that you're cooking, grewing up my family call it season rice and my mother uses White grigulated sugar to Brown her chicken and she also buys Browning sauce from a local store called fiesta here in Texas

Simply beautiful and looks delicious

I am Trinidadian and we also brown sugar for our stews. I loved pelau and whenever I go home my aunt and mom make it for me. I love it dry but not very dry.

Congratulations on your new baby!!!

I am Jamaican and I love ur cooking

This looks delicious 😋 thanks for sharing.

I don't think u were being rude Terrie Ann,ur cooking tutorial is so we can learn a different concept of cooking not that our way is wrong ,I love the way u fix up ur plate

This looks so yummy I will definitely try it out

Will try your recipe with fried plantin. Your recipe looks scrumptious.

I’ve learned how to use sugar and oil to do browning from my mum... ( a fellow Lucian 🇱🇨) and theres nothing wrong with it. Thanks for sharing another delicious meal Terri-Ann ☺️👍🏽

I never made it with chicken wings, i think i will try that next time i make it. Looks good 😊

Had this today and really enjoyed it especially with the cold slaw

In south asian culture we use onions for browning, we also do not use cream. yours is obviously a different recipe which the person you were speaking to didn’t understand. you were not being rude.

In Saint Lucia we use both browning and sugar. I am Saint Lucian but lives in France but first lived in Martinique and there they just let the meat color with a hot pot on medium fire and some oil. Everywhere is different. You weren’t wrong, people must learn to respect others POV. Respect

In Trinidad and Tobago we exclusively use brown sugar to make stew and pelau.

Hi I'm new to ur channel...and I fell in love with every dish 😋😋. Anyways growing up in st lucia...we were somewhat not the richest so brown sugar and oil did the magic. I haven't been back there in 22 years. I miss my dad and other relatives 😢 😔. And to this day I still do my coloring with brown sugar and oil even if I have browning my my cupboard.

Some folks can be so disrespectful teriann. We grew up using brown sugar to brown our meats in my country🇬🇩 and then at some point we started using browning... people need to respect people's way of cooking. Everybody won't use the same method of cooking. Keep motivated by the negatives to do even more & even better. I love each recipe you bring out! I'm team wet & dry...lol I like both

I use brown sugar most times to cook my chicken. Can't believe people would use bleach and washing up liquid, taken the term, clean your chicken literally! Food looks delicious 😋

Thank you very much for always sharing these Delicious meal.

I like it like that too. Looks delicious. And we put the peas cooking it also. I'm from St.Kitts.

Mouthwatering 👀 And you are Such a Blessing Alway's.!!@Terr💫💜👍.

To each his own ur the be st cook I've run into keep up the good cooking 😋 love ur food even if i can taste it looks amazing regards from bklyn

Hey Terrie can you one day do a green fig and backs one pot? Would really love that.