Place the peeled beans into a sizeable pot. Pour water to cover the beans and start cooking on medium heat.
Cook the beans till they become very soft. This can take 50-70 mins long. Add water from time to time to ensure the beans are always covered.
Mash the beans with a wooden spoon smoothening to a custard like consistency.
Add the catfish fillets, crayfish powder, stock cubes, locust beans, chilli powder and palm oil.
Cover the pot and cook on medium heat for about 5-10 mins.
Serve with the gbegiri on the bottom, followed by Iwedu (as per the recipe), followed by Ofe mmanu (as per the recipe) on top of this. Serve with any swallow meal (as per recipe).
OUR CHEF
Recipe of The Market girl.
Folashade Olushanu is a wife, mother, friend, confidante, lover of God and so much more.
Cooking has been a source of release for her throughout her life, with the local market in her native Nigeria being her first experience in selling her dishes to expectant customers. Folashade has since opened restaurants, catered for significant occasions and most importantly satisfied the seemingly insatiable demands of seven growing children!
With her first cookbook, Folashade is living one of her core passions – and with it he seeks to empower a generation in the kitchen.