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.
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
- If you don't have dry beans, you can use the already-cooked beans from the tin.
- 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.