Stewed Beans

This is easily one of my favorite food of all time. Growing up, I think I must have eaten enough beans for Africa lol. I don't know where I got this superstition from but I learnt that beans makes one tall, so I tend to eat a lot of beans because I believed it would make me tall. haha (yes, I am tall just incase you are wondering lol).
This is one of the very few meals that I cook and is always consistent in taste. If you rarely get your beans to taste delicious don't worry, you've got me now. It's actually very easy to cook.

You will be needing;

Honey beans (2 cups)
Habanero peppers (about 70% depending on your level of tolerance.)
Tatashe (this is to give it that lovely color; you will need about 15%)
Tomatoes (this is optional, I used to totally skip this step lol but trust me you will like it. You only need about 5% of it anyways)
Onions (lots of it about 10%)
Bullion cubes  (2)
Salt (to taste)
Palm oil
Crayfish


Lets cook

Put your water into a pot and leave to boil. (Pick your beans to remove all traces of dirt then rinse).When the water is boiled add your beans to the boiling water and add onions; lots of onions. (I later added more onions after taking the picture below).

Add enough water to the beans else you will need to be adding more water to the beans as time goes on (except you are using a pressure cooker where you would have already added a lot of water.) I added enough water to this but I kept drying up so stay tuned to it. lol

 

While you are waiting for the beans to get soft, get on with the peppers; blend your peppers, heat your frying pan with about 3 to 4 cooking spoons of palm oil, dice your onions and let it fry for a minute before adding your blended peppers then season to your taste. I only use maggi, salt, crayfish and i'm good.  Then let it fry till its reduced.

 

 

When its well fried, switch off the burner and check on the beans it should be soft by now.

 

Back to the beans: You need it veerrrrry soft like the picture below and ONLY after its soft, you can mash it if you like yours mashed. The lot of the beans is already mashed anyways because it has been cooked to be very soft.

 

 

 Then add the fried pepper mix to the beans and stir well. 

 

 

If you haven't already seasoned your pepper now is a good time to.

 

After mixing, reduce the heat to the lowest and leave on for 5 to 10 minutes. I like to leave mine a lil longer though. Personal preference.

Serve with cassava flakes hehehe  or plantain or simply eat alone.