Recipe: Eating on a Dime Plantain and beans porridge

Recipe: Eating on a Dime Plantain and beans porridge Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Plantain and beans porridge. Nigerian Beans and plantain porridge is a meal made up of ripe plantains and beans. This is tasty dish and has become popular over the years , as most parents have discovered it as a way of getting their kids to eat beans. The addition of the ripe plantains, gives the meal , that sweet taste that kids love so much.

The sweet taste of ripe plantains can make beans more appetising for your children, so that they will no longer refuse to eat what is good for them.

If you want your child to eat their beans without a fuss, then let us teach you how to make plantain porridge with beans.

It is a very simple recipe, so do not worry.

You can have Plantain and beans porridge using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Plantain and beans porridge

1. It’s 2 cups of beans.

2. It’s 3 of fingers of plantain (half ripe).

3. You need of Palm oil.

4. It’s of Crayfish.

5. Prepare of Onions.

6. You need of Pepper.

7. Prepare of Salt.

8. It’s cubes of Seasoning.

9. It’s of Dry fish.

Beans popularly known as Ewa among the yorubas is a source of Protein and Fibre.

Beans is enjoyed in different ways, Ewa Aganyin (Mashed Beans and Sauce), as a Porridge or as a side dish to accompany Rice, Yam etc and can be made in different ways.

When made into a Porridge/Pottage, It can be had with Garri, Plantain, Yam and so on.

Plantain porridge is a Nigerian vegetable stew made with the starchy cousin of common bananas.

Plantain and beans porridge instructions

1. Wash the beans and put in a pot. Add some water, cover and put it on fire.

2. While the beans is on fire, peel and cut the plant9into cubes. Wash and cover it down..

3. Blend the crayfish and pepper, slice the onions and then wash the fish.

4. Once the beans is soft, pour in the plantain, then add the blended pepper and crayfish, sliced onions, fish, salt, seasoning cubes, dry fish and palm oil.

5. Stir well, cover the pot and allow to cook for about 20 minutes..

6. Keep stirring to keep it from burning and also to achieve the thick nature of the porridge.

7. After about 20-25 minutes, your porridge is ready to be served. Turn out the heat and bring the pot down..

Plantains are simmered until tender in a flavorful broth along with assorted vegetables and sometimes fish, beans or meat.

There is no one recipe for this nutritious dish.

Beans Porridge is a delicacy in Nigeria, it is one of those Nigerian foods that are loved by every Nigerian.

I really like the taste of porridge beans especially when it is made with ripe plantain, I only learned recently to fry the plantain instead of the old way of adding them to the cooking beans.

To make the porridge vegan friendly, use a vegan condensed milk as the sweetener.