How to cook beans porridge?

How to cook beans porridge?

Here we have another traditional Nigerian recipe for you. Do you want to know how to cook beans porridge? We have prepared for you the easiest method, try it and tell all your friends. Enjoy.

How to cook beans porridge?
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Easy beans porridge recipe

This dish is known in Nigeria as ewa Oloyin, it can be prepared with cassava flakes (garri), bread or fermented, cornstarch porridge (ogi). Ewa beans are known as a must-have product in Nigeria, especially if there are children in your family. It is not hard to cook beans porridge, we prepared easy recipe, and we are going to start with ingredients:

  • 3 cups (or around 750g) black/brown eyed beans
  • Red palm oil
  • One onion (medium-sized)
  • Salt and pepper (according to your taste)
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  • 500g of Plantain or yam or baby corn or sweet potatoes, or crayfish (optional)

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Cooking:

  • Put clean beans in a pot add water and start cooking.
  • Cook till tender, don’t forget to add water from time to time. It is important to maintain the same level of water. Don’t pour to much water.
How to cook beans porridge?
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  • When the beans are soft add crayfish (if using it), onions, seasoning, pepper.
  • It is time to add salt and pour red palm oil. After that cook for five minutes. You can also add sweet yam or other additional ingredients and cook it till the added ingredients are done. It is better to add baby corn after the heat is turned off. See also: How to make Scotch eggs without flour?
  • Turn off the heat, and wait for around 5 minutes.

The dish is ready! Enjoy!

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Adrianna Simwa (Lifestyle writer) Adrianna Simwa is a content writer at Legit.ng where she has worked since mid-2022. She has written for many periodicals on a variety of subjects, including news, celebrities, and lifestyle, for more than three years. She has worked for The Hoth, The Standard Group and Triple P Media. Adrianna graduated from Nairobi University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in 2020. In 2023, Simwa finished the AFP course on Digital Investigation Techniques. You can reach her through her email: adriannasimwa@gmail.com