MY Nigerian beans stew cooked with garlic, green peppers and ginger and more.
When cooking beans stew with garlic, ginger and other stew ingredients, you take care not to let any one ingredient overpower the others. Delicious beans stew can be served with any accompaniment of choice; garri. plantain, yam, boiled rice or even eaten alone as a complete meal.
WHY I COOKED BEANS STEW WITH GINGER, GARLIC AND GREEN PEPPERS
We just got back from Christmas at the village, tired after the long day road trip and just craving some real cooked food. Aside eating too much of rice dishes during Christmas and New Year celebrations, the trip back two Abuja was uneventful with speeding cars overtaking all over the road. Schools are resuming early this year, so, I guess that’s the reason the road was awkwardly busy with travelers. Overloaded SUV conveying travelling bags and organic food stuff from villages back to cities.
Even though cars are everywhere driving past themselves and slowing down for themselves, food sellers were absent as people are still celebrating, with business closed, waiting to open in 2019.
NO RESTAURANTS OPEN AND WE WANTED HOME COOKED FOOD
Restaurants along the roads in the few towns we passed were also closed. We depended on ripe bananas and roasted groundnuts the whole ten-hour-trip back to Abj and by the time we got home, everyone wanted mom’s cooked food. The exhaustion and dusty house we met couldn’t deter me from making sure we eat real nutrition that evening but by the time I set out the ingredients and said we are going to make good beans stew, they looked at themselves like ‘what is mommy doing this night”?
My teenagers already announced they were opting for noodles, not interested in my beans stew menu but guess what? by the time the aroma from this stewing pot simmered into their rooms, no one remembered they wanted to eat noodles for dinner.
The kitchen smiled and danced with sweet aroma from my pot of beans stew. While the ingredients were still stir fried, I could tell that they were putting down their names already to be part of the beans eaters that night. I couldn’t wait to eat and nearly emptied the pot from taking small portions out to taste while it boils on the hot stove.
MY NIGERIAN BEANS STEW VERDICT
You all know me, if I make something that turns out not so great, I warn everyone to be careful while trying out the recipe but for this, you need to increase the quantity of beans before cooking commences.
Why am I saying this? At the end of the cooking, dinner served, everyone one wanted a second helping but only two people got because the pot was empty with questions like mommy why didn’t we add more beans?
flying over the dining room. This beans stew is that recipe that can make you forget the way you normally cooked beans because aside the extra nutrition, aside the richness of this beans recipe, the flavor is just great, the aroma on point. Within the just one week we’ve been here, my kids pressurized and we made more beans stew that didn’t last overnight too. Even the second time cooking, we had no left overs.
I love good beans and know how to cook good beans stew. Have you seen my tips for cooking delicious beans porridge?
Our normal Nigerian beans porridge is delicious and this here is delicious in a kind of different yummy way that just makes your taste buds smile and crave for more. My taste buds and sense of smell has a way of rejecting raw garlic smells and when it’s too much in food but we love it when cooked in a certain way.
I intend to cook my beans this way for sometime before cooking normal beans porridge for a change. It’s delicious. You’ll love this and want to eat even more beans. I always thought that beans and garlic and dried thyme aren’t a good combination but I was wrong.
They may not combine well if you load the pot with garlic or ginger. Ingredients quantity matters a lot here. With just the littlest of garlic, ginger and thyme, I asked myself why this recipe was tried before now. Combining the sweet flavours of little stir fried garlic, ginger, green pepper and onion is beautiful in certain meals and this beans stew is one of them.
This made me eat so much ignoring the fact that I’m managing my weight after the successful weight loss journey of last year.
Try this sumptuous beans stew recipe and enjoy your beans in a different flavour
HOW TO COOK BEANS STEW WITH GARLIC AND GINGER
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups beans
Water to boil beans
2 medium sized onion
1 large green pepper
3 large scotch bonnets (ata rodo)
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
1 teaspoon ginger
Bouillon seasoning cubes
Salt to taste
1/2 cup palm oil
1/2 cup vegetable oil
COOKING DIRECTION:
- Boil beans with water and one onion till soft.2. Chop and stir fry vegetables and peppers with seasoning cubes (bouillon) in heated oil till onion begins to brown.3. Add already cooked beans to stir fried vegetables, check for salt and add if needed. Stir and mash if needed. Cover and let it soften even more before turning off the burners.
- Serve with fried plantain like below or as you desire. It’s delicious!
4. Mash cooked beans with a potato masher or large spoon to desired thickness and serve with some accompaniment like boiled rice, plantain, yam, irish potato or just enjoy with bread. Can also be served with no accompaniment.
Enjoy beans stew cooked with ginger, garlic and green peppers!Have you tried our coconut rice as e dey hot recipe?CONCLUSION:
Any dried beans can be cooked this way. Make sure the beans is first of all boiled soft before adding to stir ffry. This will give you the flavors you never expected to enjoy in beans.
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