How to cook beans and corn meal with fresh corn, Help

A pot of beans and corn

Beans and cornmeal can be very filling. I posted one before, cooked with sweet corn. This time I wanted the real thing with fresh corn but …. I refused to take
pics of the cooked and served meal cos while beans were overcooked and all broken and soft, the corn was not very well cooked and I don’t know what went wrong.


The fresh
corn was washed and boiled before adding my brown beans. Someone said black eye pea is preferable when cooking with corn, that brown beans cook too fast. I would like to try this again cos my girl loves it but I need a few tips on how to do it right.

Abeg, who can cook corn and beans?

Watch this video of me cooking beans and. Corn porridge from scratch.

Read the  recipe on that post too.

 

REPLY AND RECIPE:

  • Dear poster, cooking beans, and cornmeal is very easy.
  • First, boil beans and corn in separate pots till done.
  • Next is to add all the beans ingredients needed to cook beans porridge: pepper, seasoning cube, and palm oil.
  • Allow beans to cook soft like normal Nigerian beans porridge, then empty the cooked fresh corn into the pot of beans porridge and let them simmer in low heat. 
  • Check regularly to stir the pot, please. Check for salt and add if needed.
  • Check the taste and thickness. You can always add water if porridge is too thick.

When both have boiled and mixed very well, turn off the heat and enjoy your delicious corn and beans meal.


MORE NIGERIAN PORRIDGE RECIPES:

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  2. My simple ekpang with biscuit bones
  3. How To Cook Ikokore by Shayor
  4. Yam and Spinach By Priscillia
  5. Yam porridge with Scent leaves

11 thoughts on “How to cook beans and corn meal with fresh corn, Help”

  1. I don't know what went wrong with your meal, but I guess it's the specie of corn you cooked.
    However I remove my fresh corn from the cob, boil my corn separately till it is well cooked, then my beans is slightly done, both with salt. Then I add the corn and the almost cooked beans together, add my ingredients, stir and allow to simmer till beans is fully cooked. Somtimes I fry my oil, onion, Peper, crayfish together and add to the boiling beans & corn. This gives it a unique taste.
    Perhaps I should cook and send.

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  2. Eya, Ʊ woulda sent the final picture to use….
    It makes us understand that you are human afterall and all our little mistakes are acceptable…as long as we r willing 2 make a chnage 4 d better.

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  3. OMG this is a very traditional meal eaten all over Kenya and east Africa in general it has several names from the different communities but the most common ones you will find are "githeri" and "nyoyo"

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  4. Heiya! Sorri auntyy Eya, here is the step of how I cook mine.
    I usually parboil d freshcorn and beans seperately. I was my perboil beans just as it wants to get soft. Den mix it wit d perboil fresh corn and add my ingredients, cover and allow to boil. I usually add my cryfish last to spicen it up for me. Sometimes I fry my oil, cryfish and pepper and add as it boilsdats if I don't want to add it direct.

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  5. Pls how do I Cook beans with crayfish or dry bong a fish ? Tried it the other but it was too salty. Hubby was disappointed and he went to bed without taking dinner.

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