The carbohydrate bestie
Today, we pay tribute to Nigerian beans one of the staple foods in Nigeria. Beans is that baddie that can switch up her style anytime and has no trouble blending in. It comes in various shades of white, brown and even red.
It is a good source of protein that is tasty, affordable, fills the belly fast, and rumored as the secret for growth in height. It can also be cooked in a variety of ways.
However, kindly note that eating beans can make you more thirsty and fart more 🙂. Also, cooking it will test your patience, cooking skills, and remind you of the cost of gas.
Without further ado, meet the many personalities of beans and her besties!
1. Ewa Agoyin
Some would say Ewa Agoyin is just boiled beans and stew but she is no plain jane. Her secret is in the sauce!
If ewa agoyin was ever a person, she would be a daddy’s girl. From the cooking to the finished look, everything is just soft and sweet. There is only one proper way to eat it – with very soft and fresh bread. Not those packaged sliced ones please 🙄.
Strictly Agege.
2. Stewed Beans
Stewed beans is that baddie with many besties. It goes well with soaked garri, maize, plantain, oven-fresh bread, yam and spaghetti (for the weirdos).
It requires no grinding to paste or frying. Simply boil and spice with palm oil, pepper and onions.
3. Akara
As much as I’d love to call akara a baddie, the truth is she is a bloody Samaritan. Akara is easy and fast to make. And is commonly sold by roadsides.
First the beans is ground to a paste with pepper and onions. Then fried in either vegetable oil or palm oil. Foodies claim that the fluffier the paste, the fluffier the Akara. Akara is best served hot with fresh agege bread, or pap.
4. Moi moi
Moimoi is another cute and tasty version of beans. First the beans is ground together with pepper and onions to form a paste. Then, it is wrapped in leaves or scooped inside nylon and left to boil.
Unlike Akara, it requires no frying whatsoever, just boil and vibes. Moimoi is best paired with liquid or solid pap.
5. Ekuru
Talk about multi-personality orderliness. Ekuru is a stand apart version of beans as its savor depends on the stew that comes with it.
Once you make a mistake in the stew, just forget it.
6. Gbegiri Soup
When we say beans is top two and not number two, trust us. Which other staple food in Nigeria do you know that has a soup version? Exactly.
Beans is that baddie that can be boiled, fried, stewed and can serve as a soup. The beans is first peeled, boiled, blended and then sauced up! A warning though, the process is long. If you don’t like stress, go and buy at a buka 💁🏻♀️.
Gbegiri soup is best served hot with ewedu, well-fried stew and Amala. A combo popularly known as Abula.
Which beans personality do you enjoy the most? Share with us in the comments 😌.
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