Recipe: At Home Tuwoshinkafa and beans soup. (Gbegiri soup)

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Recipe: At Home Tuwoshinkafa and beans soup. (Gbegiri soup) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tuwoshinkafa and beans soup. (Gbegiri soup). Rub and squeeze together with both hands to peel off the beans skin. Continue rubbing and rinsing off the chaff until as much skin has been washed off as possible. Boil skinned beans until it becomes adequately soft and mushy.

It is a traditional Yoruba food made with black-eyed or brown mashed beans.

By its very nature, it looks like baby food but revitalizes when you enhance it with Ewedu Soup and meat from your Beef & Chicken Stew.

Gbegiri is best enjoyed with either Tuwo Shinkafa or Amala and Ewedu soup.

You can cook Tuwoshinkafa and beans soup. (Gbegiri soup) using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tuwoshinkafa and beans soup. (Gbegiri soup)

  1. It’s of Rice.

  2. You need of Beans.

  3. It’s of Palm oil.

  4. It’s of Beef.

  5. You need of Pepper.

  6. You need of Maggi.

  7. Prepare of salt.

Gbegiri soup (Beans soup) is one of the popular soups in Nigeria, some people actually patronize the Buka (restaurants) because of Gbegiri and their signature stew Buka Stew Recipe.

Gbegiri soup is not difficult to make but involves a few steps and this makes some people not to make it at home, it involves the peeling of beans, to peel your beans easily I posted an easy way to peel bean check.

It is another way to enjoy beans.

Brown beans or black eyed beans are the best beans for making this soup.

Tuwoshinkafa and beans soup. (Gbegiri soup) instructions

  1. Boil rice (local white rice) with low eat till its mashy. When the water is dry, turn it into tuwo. You can grind the rice into flour and turn..

  2. Peal beans and boil till its very soft. Pour it into blender and blend. Add pepper, meat, maggi and salt to taste..

The beans is first peeled, then boiled and blended.

Please note that it is not carved in stone that you'll get all the skin off the beans before boiling it for gbegiri.

This week we are making TUWO SHINKAFA and GBEGIRI SOUP.

Late last year, the Nigeria Youth Service Corps decided to send me to the Northern part of the country, Zamfara State to serve my country.

Getting to the north, I decided to look a little bit into their culture and this is their first meal that I learnt (Tuwo Shinkafa).