West African Beans and Plantain Pottage
West African Beans and Plantain Pottage

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One-Pot Beans and Plantains (Bean and Plantain Pottage) - West African Flavours. This One-Pot Beans and Plantains recipe (bean pottage I hear my Nigerian friends call it) is finger-licking street food at its best - think filling protein from the black-eyed beans, flavour from the palm oil and fish and. In Course, Food, Main Course, Nigerian, Vegetable recipes.

West African Beans and Plantain Pottage is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. West African Beans and Plantain Pottage is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have west african beans and plantain pottage using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make West African Beans and Plantain Pottage:
  1. Make ready 1/2 lb beans soaked overnight and rinsed
  2. Prepare 4 cups water
  3. Get 1 onion finely chopped
  4. Take 2 tbsps parsley chopped
  5. Take 1 discs plantain peeled and cut into
  6. Take handful spinach of very finely chopped or patchoi
  7. Get 1 cup pumpkin cubes
  8. Prepare to taste Salt
  9. Make ready 1 pack sorrel dried
  10. Make ready 5 cups water
  11. Make ready 4 cinnamon sticks

Some people use black eyed peas or honey brown beans one being sweeter. It is also a staple amongst many african countries. For example, Ghanians call beans pottage "Red Red" which seems to be a play on the how the palm. This One-Pot Beans and Plantains recipe (bean and plantain pottage) is finger-licking West African street food at its best.

Steps to make West African Beans and Plantain Pottage:
  1. Put beans and water in a pot and bring to the boil. Skim off the layer of foam.
  2. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 mins.
  3. Mix in the onion, fish flakes and pumpkin and let simmer for about 1.5 hr or until the beans are done to your taste.
  4. About 15 mins before the beans are ready stir in the plantains and parsley.
  5. Cover the pot and cook till the plantain is done.
  6. Stir in the chopped spinach, adjust seasoning and serve with some rice.
  7. Add sorrel, water and cinnamon sticks in a pot and bring to a boil.
  8. Boil for 10 mins, then turn off heat and allow to steep.
  9. Strain and collect liquid.
  10. This makes a concentrated drink.
  11. Pour 1/4 cup of concentrate into a glass and fill with water.
  12. Sweeten with honey or sugar to taste.
  13. The concentrate will stay in the fridge for several weeks in an air tight bottle.

Black-eyed beans, palm oil and plantains make up this incredibly tasty, easy-to-make, one-pot meal. Ripe Plantain Pottage is a very popular pottage dish, particularly in West Africa. I'm really not a fan of squishy foods so I tend to stay way from all things squishy pottage, even the popular yam pottage. Recently, a friend, Arit Okpo, posted a lovely photo of Goat Meat Plantain Pottage on Instagram and. Learn how to prepare this iron-rich dish of plantain pottage with unripe plantain, fish and scent leaves.

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