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Beans in palm oil

Name: Beans in palm oil
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 300 g Black-eyed peas; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 3 tbsp Palm oil; 3 Tomato; 500 ml Stock; 1 Chili pepper; 300 g Rice; 2 Plantain

Preparation time: 1 h 30
Servings: Serves 4

Ingredients

Serves 4

Black-eyed peas — to buy300 g
Onion — to buy1
Garlic — to buy2 cloves
Palm oil — to buy3 tbsp
Tomato — to buy3
Stock — to buy500 ml
Chili pepper — to buy1
Rice — to buy300 g
Plantain — to buy2

Preparation

Soak the black-eyed peas the night before, or use already-cooked beans to save time.
Cook the onion and garlic in palm oil, add the chopped tomatoes, let simmer 5 minutes.
Add the beans and cover with broth, cover and simmer 45 minutes (or 15 minutes if already cooked), until the beans are very tender and the sauce has thickened.
Add the whole chilli to flavour without too much heat, remove it at the end of cooking.
Serve hot with rice or fried plantain.