Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, west african beans and plantain pottage. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
One-Pot Beans and Plantains (Bean and Plantain Pottage) - West African Flavours. This One-Pot Beans and Plantains recipe (bean pottage I hear my Nigerian friends call it) is finger-licking street food at its best - think filling protein from the black-eyed beans, flavour from the palm oil and fish and. West African One-Pot Beans and Plantains
West African Beans and Plantain Pottage is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. West African Beans and Plantain Pottage is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook west african beans and plantain pottage using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make West African Beans and Plantain Pottage:
- Make ready 1/2 lb beans soaked overnight and rinsed
- Make ready 4 cups water
- Get 1 onion finely chopped
- Make ready 2 tbsps parsley chopped
- Take 1 discs plantain peeled and cut into
- Prepare handful spinach of very finely chopped or patchoi
- Get 1 cup pumpkin cubes
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Prepare 1 pack sorrel dried
- Take 5 cups water
- Get 4 cinnamon sticks
Plantain pottage cooked Nigerian, this way is the yummiest, helps one lose weight, Controls sugar levels and very rich in vitamins. I wanted variety for my plantain but never imagined the equation will be so balanced and well blended. The African yam bean (AYB) originated in Ethiopia. Both wild and cultivated types now occur in tropical Africa as far as Zimbabwe, throughout West Africa from Guinea to southern Nigeria, being especially common in the latter and in Togo and the Ivory coast.
Instructions to make West African Beans and Plantain Pottage:
- Put beans and water in a pot and bring to the boil. Skim off the layer of foam.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 15 mins.
- Mix in the onion, fish flakes and pumpkin and let simmer for about 1.5 hr or until the beans are done to your taste.
- About 15 mins before the beans are ready stir in the plantains and parsley.
- Cover the pot and cook till the plantain is done.
- Stir in the chopped spinach, adjust seasoning and serve with some rice.
- Add sorrel, water and cinnamon sticks in a pot and bring to a boil.
- Boil for 10 mins, then turn off heat and allow to steep.
- Strain and collect liquid.
- This makes a concentrated drink.
- Pour 1/4 cup of concentrate into a glass and fill with water.
- Sweeten with honey or sugar to taste.
- The concentrate will stay in the fridge for several weeks in an air tight bottle.
Cut the plantain lengthwise, remove the core. Add the palm oil to a large pot, set on medium heat. Learn how to prepare this iron-rich dish of plantain pottage with unripe plantain, fish and scent leaves. I'm not sure where the recipe for plantain pottage originated, but this dish is common in Nigeria. From the use of ground crayfish as a seasoning to the use of palm oil, the recipe is very local.
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