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BEANS

Nigerian Beans

Nigerian beans

Preparation Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 80 hours

Ingredients

black eyed beans

Black-eyed beans

450g

onions

Onions

2 piece

green bell pepper

Red bell pepper

1  piece

water

1½Ltr Water

green bell pepper

Scotch bonnet chilli pepper

1 piece

palm oil

Vegetable/Palm/Olive oil

10ml

maggi

Maggi stock

6 cubes

salt

Salt (as required)

black eyed beans

Black-eyed beans

450g

onions

Onions

2 piece

green bell pepper

Red bell pepper

1  piece

water

1½Ltr Water

green bell pepper

Scotch bonnet chilli pepper

1 piece

palm oil

Vegetable/Palm/Olive oil

10ml

maggi

Maggi stock

6 cubes

salt

Salt (as required)

Preparation

  1. Blend all the peppers and dice the onions.
  2. Place the beans into a sizeable pot. Pour water to cover the beans and start cooking on medium heat.
  3. Cook till the beans are tender, adding more water from time to time, if necessary. Always keep the water at the same level as beans while cooking.
  4. When the beans are soft, add the blended mix from step 1, diced onions, and stock cubes.
  5. Add oil, salt to taste, and continue to cook –overall the beans should have been cooked for around 50-70 mins based on your desired softness.
  6. Serve with Ofe mmanu (as per recipe).
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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!

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