Beans is one of those legume that is so nutritious to the body. Most beans has 20-25% protein and also contains over 70% of carbohydrate. Most people do mistake it to be food with enough protein but not all beans are proteinous. Beans are also a good source of fibers, so you need it in your meal plan.
Soybeans is very nutritious and is good for people of all age depending on how you prepare it.
In Nigeria, we have different types of beans and we eat majority of this type although we have different ways of preparing them for a pleasant taste.
Some types of beans I've eaten
I've eaten all this type of beans and I don't think I dislike any, I like them all because they are really delicious.
Oloka beans usually take time to soft, it is the most strong beans I've even eaten therefore, it needs more time to cook for it to be soft enough to swallow.
It has a very sweet taste and a nice flavour to cook it I prepared some ingredients below 👇
Ingredients
Washed, added water to the pot and cooked the beans till soft
When the beans is soft, I added ripe plantain to it and at this point, I added all my ingredients.
I added the chicken stock
I added some onion, seasoning cubes, salt, crayfish, fish and Pepper and allow it to cook
I added the fresh tomatoes and cover the pot for it to cook for about 5 minutes
After cooking for some time, I finally added palm oil cover the pot, in 3 minutes time my porridge beans was ready
It was really delicious and my family appreciate this recipe so much and they enjoyed the meal. We ate ours like that because we already had ripe plantain in it.
I know you have different recipes of beans, how do you cook yours? What do you like eating it with?
Do you like my recipe? Will you give it a try? Let me know your view in the comment section perhaps I can adopt your recipe as well.
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