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One-pot black-eyed beans and sweet potato recipe (bean and sweet potato pottage) – West African Flavors

One-pot black-eyed beans and sweet potato recipe (bean and sweet potato pottage)
Course Main
Cuisine African
Cook Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings 4 -6

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

Gluten-free.