The popular beans stew

Beans stew is a very popular dish in Cameroon. Most people eat it every morning with puff puff or rice as their breakfast. They usually gather around a table in a small local restaurant and eat this delicious dish before starting their daily activity. Among these people, there are children, men and women. People just love this tasty dish, starting by myself.

To cook this stew, I always use dry beans which I soak overnight. I boil the beans in the morning for about 1 hour depending on the hardness of the beans. Other types of beans may need less time. After that, I prepare the spices and ground them using a blender. When all these are ready, I can then start the cooking process.

Beans stew

Beans stew is a very popular dish in Cameroon. Most people eat it every morning with puff puff or rice as their breakfast.

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Prep Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 40 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine African

Servings 6 people

Ingredients

  

• 500 g dry beans
• 1 big onion
• 3 fresh tomatoes
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 70 g leek
• 7 garlic cloves
• 2 country onions
• 25 g ginger
• 20 g dry crayfish
• 2 ginger leaves or bay leaves
• 1 tsp white pepper
• 1 handful of parsley
• 100 ml oil
• 1 hot pepper
• 1 bell pepper
• salt to taste
• 250 ml water

Instructions

 

• Soak the beans overnight and boil it the next morning with salt.
• Drain the boiled beans using a sieve and wash it with clean water. Then drain it again and set aside.
• Put the pot on the fire with oil inside to heat up and add the diced onion in.
• Add the chopped tomato to the pot and let it fry for a few minutes. Then add tomato paste and salt, and stir the mixture.
• Clean and wash the leek, garlic, ginger, and parsley, then put them inside the blender and blend.
• Add the blended mixture to the pot. Let it cook until you can see the oil on the surface. Meanwhile, keep stirring the mixture.
• Add water, crayfish, white pepper, bay leaves, and beans to the mixture. Stir and let it cook for about 5 min, then it is ready to serve.

Notes

1. If you don’t have dry beans, you can use the already-cooked beans from the tin.
2. Some people cook this stew with meat. I don’t do that because the beans are already rich in proteins, so adding meat is not necessary. But, if you like meat in it, you are free to do that.

Keyword African food, beans, meatfree

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