Dadawa (Locust Bean) Sauce with vegetables

This is how I make dadawa sauce with fermented locust beans and green vegetables. In my dadawa sauce, Locust

beans also known as Iru or dadawa is the main ingredient.

We served this dadawa sauce with boiled rice, boiled unripe plantain and some served theirs with fufu swallow.  Dadawa sauce is one easy sauce to make. I like adding green vegetables to my sauce but you can make this dadawa sauce without vegetables and it will still be nutritious and delicious.

I wanted to try making something different. Searched Google for dadawa sauce and landed instead on my very tasty local palm oil rice cooked with dadawa. Couldn’t find any dadawa sauce, so I decided to try making one and honestly. This is the best thing I ate today. There is no guilt as this is very healthy. Dadawa is so loaded with proteins, so much so that even without fish or meats, we can still make it nutritious.

Below are the ingredients for my delicious dadawa sauce cooked with fermented locust beans

INGREDIENTS

Dadawa… More than enough. I used two large wraps
Crayfish.
Fresh Pepper.
Tomatoes.
Onion.
Palm oil.
Dried catfish.
Salt.
1 bunch green amaranthus vegetables (Aleho)
1 bunch water leaf
Seasoning cubes.
That’s all!

Before you cook dadawa locust beans sauce with vegetables, do the following:

1. Wash and cut the vegetables with a knife and set aside.
2. Dice the onion, chop the tomatoes and pepper and set aside.
3. Debone and wash the dried fish, grind the crayfish.
4. Rinse locust beans with clean water

SEE COOKING STEPS IN PICTURES BELOW

 

Here is how to make dadawa sauce with fermented locust beans and green vegetables

HOW TO MAKE DADAWA SAUCE

• First fry the onion, peppers, fresh tomatoes, dried fish, crayfish and seasoning cubes till fragrant. Check for salt and add if needed.
• Next is the dadawa (Fermented locust beans). Add all the dadawa and stir. Leave to cook for about a minute or two.
• Finally, the green vegetables come into the sizzling pot. When I added the vegetables, I immediately covered the pot without stirring. After a few minutes, vegetables look wilted before we stirred and mixed very well.
• Leave to cook to your desired greenness. Check for taste and turn off the heat. Serve dadawa sauce with rice, plantain or even swallows like eba, pounded yam, semo and so on.

  

That’s our very easy recipe for dadawa sauce cooked with fermented locust beans and vegetables.