Recipe: Perfect Coconut Njahi (black beans)

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Coconut Njahi (black beans). Black beans (Njahi) cooked in coconut curry. Black beans is one of my favourite kind of beans. Mix in the black beans and continue frying coating the beans with all the spicy goodness.

They have a very rich, delicious, assertive taste, which pairs so well with other fresh ingredients making them super fun to cook.

I also find them really pretty too!

This recipe would work well not only with njahi, but with any other bean as well.

You can cook Coconut Njahi (black beans) using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Coconut Njahi (black beans)

1. Prepare 1/2 kg of boiled njahi.

2. You need 1 cup of Coconut milk.

3. It’s 1 of onion.

4. It’s 2 of tomatoes.

5. You need 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder (optional).

6. Prepare 1 tsp of Garlic and ginger.

7. It’s to taste of Salt.

Begin by soaking your njahi overnight.

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Coconut Njahi (black beans) step by step

1. In a cooking pot, put the boiled njahi cut in the onion and tomato. Add in the garlic, ginger, turmeric and salt..

2. Add the coconut milk and leave to cook..

3. The good thing with ngahi you can serve with any meal and eat at anytime. Try with bread, rice and chapati.

Ask any new mother about njahi and you will receive a nod of approval and a positive story riding that nod.

Add the njahi and stir gently until fully mixed.

Add more water or coconut cream to desired taste and cover to allow to simmer.

Turn off the heat, add the chopped dhania, mix and serve with rice or chapati.

Add the rinsed black beans and the remaining whole can of black beans (including the liquid), and the coconut milk; season generously with salt and pepper.