How to Cook Nigerian Porridge Beans (Ewa) - Fried Method

Beans is one major food you can find in Africa, United States, Canada Australia or any country in world. Yoruba's call it ewa, while the Ibo's call it Agwa. Here in Nigeria most men cannot do without eating beans, at least once a week to ensure they balance their diet.

In line with advice from nutrition experts, most Nigerian mothers are advised to give their children a proteinous foods and beans is one of them. Growing kids need nutritious food to help them grow well and healthy. Follow the below steps and give it your best as always. Read on

Come on moms out there, let’s get started, I bet you your kids and husband will enjoy this food and will definitely ask for more

Ingredients

Beans, Water, Salt, Cube, Red Oil, Pepper, one medium size ball of Onion, Crayfish.

Direction

• Measure 2 cups of beans (I prefer the brown beans)
• Pick out the dirt’s and stones
• Wash the beans with clean water and put it in a pot
• Put the pot with bean on fire
• Leave the beans to boil until the beans becomes “very” soft

Add salt to taste and leave it on fire for 5 minutes

Add your knorr, maggi cube or sauce of your choice, leave it on fire for two minutes and remove the put from the fire.

Wash and chop your onion, blend your pepper and crayfish

Put a good quantity of red oil in a clean pot or frying pan and put the pot on fire to get hot

Add your onion, pepper and crayfish into the hot oil and allow ingredients to fry for about 5 minutes

Then pour the fried ingredients into pot of beans and put the pot of beans back on fire

Allow the beans to boil for about 15 minutes and stir it to avoid burning

After stirring, cover the pot and allow the beans to boil for another 15 minutes and its done.

Now your delicious beans is ready.

Hope you like what you see? Believe me it tastes like “agonyin beans” for those of us who grew up in Lagos, you definitely understand what I am talking about - that beans prepared and sold by Benin Republic women.

It sounds funny but the truth is my husband taught me how to prepare this food and as I speak now I cook it a lot better than him. Beans is one of his favourite meals and he cannot do without eating it at least once a week.

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