My simple recipe for cooking corn and beans together with dadawa seasoning
To prepare this beans and corn with dadawa, we used fresh corn. There is a recipe on the blog for making beans and corn porridge with sweet corn but not this here.
Today, I wanted to enjoy some boiled corn I got from corn sellers at the market. When I got home, no one could bite into the maize cobs at all. The corn wasn’t cooked soft. I thought of how not to waste my fresh corn and decided to make beans and corn pottage.
Cooking method for beans and corn porridge using fresh corn is really simple. After using a knife to remove the maize from the cobs, We washed beans into a pot added water and the corn with onion. That’s all and cooking begins. Just like how we cook beans porridge in Nigeria. It boils until soft, before we add palm oil, pepper. seasoning cubes and salt.
After adding all these ingredients, the boiling pot of porridge is left to simmer in low heat and thicken. With frequent stirring of course.
WHY WE ADDED DADAWA LOCUST BEANS TO BEANS AND CORN PORRIDGE
After cooking, I thought of how dadawa always has that great effect on porridges and local Nigerian soups, so we decided to try with a teaspoon of dadawa. The way that little drop of locust beans took this porridge to a different level, we just decided to make it one tablespoon of locust beans and truly. the pot I just brought down from the burner is empty as I type.
The addition of that little quantity of dadawa really enhanced the taste of my beans and corn porridge. I think for now I will continue to enjoy this maize season by cooking beans and corn porridge together with a little dadawa.
Enjoy your delicious dinner of beans and corn with dadawa.
Watch this video of me cooking beans and cotn porridge
INGREDIENTS FOR BEANS AND CORN WITH DADAWA
2 cups beans ( I used black eyed pea)
1 cup boiled corn
1 medium sized onion
Palm oil
Pepper
1 tablespoon dadawa (fermented locust beans)
Seasoning cubes to taste
salt to taste
COOKING DIRECTION:
- Wash beans into a cooking pot and add the boiled corn and diced onion. Let them cook until beans softens.
- Add palm oil and leave to cook until oil changes colour and beans softens even more.
- Add pepper, salt and seasoning cubes. Stir very well and check for taste. Adjust if salt is needed.
- Add the dadawa and stir. Check for taste again. You see the difference?
- Let pot simmer in low heat as you stir frequently to thicken. By this time, both the fresh boiled corn and the beans are cooked and tasty.
- Serve hot or leave to cool a bit and thicken more if that’s how you like it.
Enjoy your beans and corn with dadawa.