Thursday 30 September 2010

 featured-recipe:
AFRICAN BROWN BEANS AND SWEETCORN MASH:


Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 2 people
Ingredients: 500g of African brown beans (oloyin beans), pick stones & wash, 1 small onion, 2 large     tomatoes, 1 teaspoon ground chilli powder (optional), 1 350g can of sweet corn, drain water (or 200g 0f frozen sweet corn), 100ml of palm oil, 1 litre of water, Salt, Sugar.
Method: Boil beans in a pressure cooker without placing the lid in the first instance. Coarsely blend the tomatoes and onion and add to beans. Also add 1 seasoning cube, chilli powder if using, cover the pressure cooker and boil under pressure for 15 minutes or until beans become just soft to the touch. Remove pressure cooker from heat and open carefully. Using a wooden spoon carefully stir beans. Then add sweet corn to the beans. Stir well. Add salt and 2 table spoons of sugar or more if preferred. Stir well. Turn down heat and add the palm oil. Add about half a cup of hot water to adjust the consistency. Cover and simmer for a further 10 minutes stirring occasionally.
Serve hot.

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