How to Blends Tasty Ewa Agoyin

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Ewa Agoyin. For Ewa Agoyin, the beans needs to be very soft. Note: If you have a pressure cooker, beans is one of the staple foods you will want to use it for. It considerably reduces the cooking time.

The term 'Ewa Agoyin' was coined from Ewa, meaning beans in Yoruba, and Agoyin, which is a tribe in Benin Republic or a general term used by Nigerians to refer to Beninese and Togolese people.

Ewa Agoyin was therefore used to describe the type of beans prepared by these people of Togolese and Beninese origins.

Ewa Aganyin (also spelled incorrectly as Ewa Agoyin) is a street food (also eaten as a meal in many Yoruba households) commonly eaten across Nigeria.

You can cook Ewa Agoyin using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ewa Agoyin

1. You need 3 cups of honey beans.

2. It’s Half of cup of unblended Cameroon pepper.

3. It’s of Quarter cup of dry shombo.

4. It’s 2 tablespoons of dry pepper seed.

5. Prepare 1 of bulb of onion.

6. It’s 2 of heap tablespoons of grounded crayfish.

7. It’s 2 cups of palm oil.

8. You need 1 of stock cube.

9. It’s to taste of Salt.

The beans are made to be extremely soft or mashed.

It is commonly eaten with barely ground pepper and tomato sauce which is very spicy, but peppery.

It has a local name of 'Ewa G'.

Ewa Agoyin is a Nigerian street food made with cooked and mashed beans, often served with a spicy sauce.

Ewa Agoyin step by step

1. Pick your beans then put in a pot, add water then salt and Onion and start to cook.

2. Top up the Water as you cook then cook till very soft then mash with a wooden stick..

3. Next, roughly blend your pepper, and shombo with little onion, at this point, heat the oil in a sauce pan, add diced onion then fry till the onion starts to burn, that is what gives the sauce that distinct agoyin flavour..

4. Add the blended pepper to the oil in the sauce the sauce pan, then continue to fry.

5. Add the crayfish, salt and knorr cube.

6. Taste and adjust then fry till dry, at that point you will notice that the oil is floating on top. Then bring down.

7. Serve with the boiled beans.

Interestingly, the origins of this dish are not in Nigeria.

The word 'ewa' means beans in Yoruba, the language of an ethnic group by the same name in Nigeria and Benin. 'Agoyin' is the word Nigerians often use for Togolese and.

Ewa agoyin is however, always made out of brown beans.

You can add more water in-between.

Ewa Agoyin (Ewa Aganyin) is a very popular street food, especially on Lagos streets.