Nigerian Jollof Rice

Ingredients

• (2½ to 3 lbs) broiler-fryer chicken
  1 unit
• peanut or cooking oil
  2 tbsp
• onion

  chopped
  1 medium
• (16 oz) can tomatoes

  cut up
  1 unit
• chicken broth
  1¼ cups
• bay leaf
  1 unit
• ground ginger

  and dried thyme, crushed
  ½ tsp
• salt
  ½ tsp
• ground red pepper
  ¼ tsp
• long-grain rice
  1 cup
• snipped parsley
  1 tbsp