One-pot Black-Eyed Beans & Sweet Potato Recipe
Sierra Leone recipe / West African recipe – This one-pot black-eyed beans and sweet potato recipe with palm oil (bean and sweet potato pottage) is finger-licking street food at its best.
Time to share another one of my comforting West African recipes. As in a one-pot black-eyed beans and sweet potato recipe (aka bean and sweet potato pottage).
This one pot sweet potato and black-eyed peas stew is one of the most delicious African street foods out there. Seriously I can remember eating so many huge sandwiches stuffed to the brim with this and licking my palm oil fingers clean at the end. It is the sort of meal that if you finish it you would be hard pressed to want to eat anything else that day.
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And it is easy to make, like a lot of one pot meals. Sure, it takes some time, but that is just cooking time. You don’t have to be there, you can put it in the oven or a slow cooker. Pretty much thrown in the beans, palm oil, fish and onion into the pot, simmer for a while and add in the sweet potato towards the end.
This one pot stew is pretty adaptable too. If you’d prefer plantain instead of sweet potato, chuck it in. If you can’t find dried fish, well what about mushrooms? Or some meat? Or whatever else you think would add lovely flavours.
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One-pot black-eyed beans and sweet potato recipe (bean and sweet potato pottage) – West African Flavors
Ingredients
- 400 g (14oz) beans soaked overnight and rinsed
- 1.125 L (4.5 cups) water
- 200 ml (0.8 cup) palm oil
- 1 onion peeled and finely chopped
- 4 tbsp dried fish flakes
- Chopped Scotch bonnet chilli to taste
- 1 jumbo maggi cube
- 1 large sweet potato peeled and cut into small cubes
- 2 large handfuls of very finely chopped spinach
- Salt
Instructions
- Put the black-eyed beans and the water in a pot and bring to the boil. Skim off the layer of foam, reduce heat and simmer for 15 mins.
- Mix in the palm oil, onion, fish flakes and scotch bonnet chilli and let simmer for about 1.5 hr or until the beans are done to your taste.
- About 25 mins before the beans are ready stir in the maggi cube and sweet potato, cover the pot and cook till the plantain is done.
- Stir in the spinach, and adjust the seasoning and switch off the heat.
- Serve the bean and sweet potato stew the Sierra Leonean way, by pulling out the middle of a roll and filling it with the stew. Or if you don’t feel like bread, it is also lovely with rice.
Notes
If you like this recipe then try my one pot bean and plantain stew (bean and plantain pottage).
This looks so easy and totally delicious!
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This is beautiful!! I love trying recipes that I have never had before (and I am telling you, I am super excited about this one!!)
Yaye, I am pleased to hear this.
We have been eating a lot of black eyed beans recently and we love them. Going to have to try this out too!
Looking forward to hearing how it went.
Wow, this looks so delicious. I love these flavours and so simple make. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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That looks amazing. We make a lot of one pot bean dishes…I’m excited to try something new! My kids love sweet potatoes too. 🙂
Would you add salt to this dish? Or do the fish flakes replace the salt?
The stock cube has salt, but you can certainly add more to taste.
We love beans and sweet potatoes in our home – and I will definitely be combining them with this recipe soon!
Hope you like it Megan.
This looks so good! I am going to have to try this one out!
Love your African recipes, Bintu! I bet this is so tasty. I was interested to see that there are fish flakes in there, too! Thanks for introducing this wonderful traditional dish to me! 🙂
I get more pleasure form you guy seeeing it.
I love sweet potato porridge and they’re so packed with great nutrients.
This is making me hungry! Looks soooo good!
The last time I had black-eyed beans (or peas as my mom called them) I was too young to know what I liked. I too often forget to incorporate beans into my main meal. This looks like a great recipe!
Blackeyed peas are definitely a big part of my culture. I love to see all of the different recipes such as your recipe to help give me a new take on how others make their blackeyed peas so that I can put a new twist on a family old classic. I see you have some peppers, fish flakes, and sweet potatoes that I cannot wait to add to my recipe! Thanks for sharing!
I really want to see what you do with your black-eyed beans.
I’m loving the flavors here, and the one pot meal makes it even better — easy clean up!
True comfort food to this yankee!
Heck yeah.
Totally Agree with you Bintu- it is DELISH!! Can’t seem to have enough of it with or without sweet potatoes – YUM!!!
Oh my, that looks, sounds and I bet smells heavenly Bintu!
Stunning photos too, please can I order a bowl for lunch??!
Janie x
Looks delicious, I like the addition of sweet potato to the beans, I bet that added sweetness is lovely.
This is comfort food right here…pinned!
It’s so beautiful! I want to enjoy this as soon as I can make it.