Recipe: Tasty Tuwo Rice and gbegiri (beans soup)

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Recipe: Tasty Tuwo Rice and gbegiri (beans soup) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tuwo Rice and gbegiri (beans soup). Simmer until your bean soup has turned into a smooth paste and all ingredients are well blended into it; Add Seasoning to taste. Gbegiri soup is a very popular Nigerian beans soup. It's made with black eyed or brown beans.

Gbegiri is a traditional Nigerian bean soup consisting of honey beans (also called brown beans), smoked or fresh fish, ground crayfish, palm oil, stock, irú (locust beans), salt, and pepper.

The beans are soaked, peeled, and mashed to a smooth paste, which is then combined with the other ingredients and cooked until the mixture reaches a slightly thickened consistency It is a thick pudding prepared from local rice that is soft and sticky.

It is usually served with different types of soup like Miyan Kuka, Miyan taushe and Miyan Wake which is simply Beans soup, similar to the popular Yoruba Gbegiri soup.

You can have Tuwo Rice and gbegiri (beans soup) using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tuwo Rice and gbegiri (beans soup)

  1. You need of Rice.

  2. Prepare of Beans.

  3. It’s of Scotch bonnet.

  4. You need of Onions.

  5. It’s of Seasoning Palm oil.

Tuwo Shinkafa (Tuwon Shinkafa) - is a Nigerian local dish made from raw rice and also with Rice flour.

It is another way to enjoy beans.

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

The beans is first peeled, then boiled and blended.

Tuwo Rice and gbegiri (beans soup) instructions

  1. Put water in a pot bring to boil, wash Rice and add it to the boiling water cook till soft and torn till smooth..

  2. Remove the back of the beans wash very well pour in a clean pot bring to cook..

  3. Pound scotch bonnet and onion together add to the beans leave to cook till soft..

  4. Add seasoning, oil, a little salt to taste then wisk with a broom then serve with tuwo rice and stew..

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

Gbegiri soup is a type of Nigerian soup popularly eaten by the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria.

It is made from peeled cooked bean.

This beans soup is commonly served at restaurants also known as Buka.

It is delicious, velvety and mildly flavoured.