Food Recipes

Ewa Agoyin

Ewa Agoyin

Nigerian Ewa Agoyin Recipe

Ingredient

For the beans:
2 cups red beans
salt to taste
For the sauce:
1 large white onion (thinly slices)
1 cup palm oil
1tsp salt
1 cube maggi
1/4 cup dried blended crayfish(optional)
1 large bell pepper  (tatashe)
4 habanero peppers (Ata Rodo)
another half size medium onion


Direction
Beans:
Add 6 cups of water to a pot, set on low heat.
wash and add the beans.  leave on low heat for 2hr:30min or until the beans is very soft.
Add salt to taste.

Sauce: (Agoyin pepper)

• In a blender, combine the bell pepper,  habanero(rodo) pepper and the half medium onion. CHOP. (the desired texture is coarse )

• Set a medium sized pot on low heat, add the palm oil

• Bleach the oil  for 10-15mins ( Caution: it might get smoky)

• Turn the heat to minimum, add the chopped onion, stir at interval until the onion is caramelized (the color should be black but not burnt).  This takes about 30-40mins.

• Add in the blender chopped pepper to another pot, boil for 15mins (this is to remove excess water)

• Add the parboiled pepper to the fried onion, cook for about 15mins.

• Add in the crayfish, salt and maggi.

• Taste for seasoning

• Cook on medium heat for another 10mins.

You can Serve the beans with bread ,plantain , garri ,etc……………………

EnJOY

Edikaikong

ingredients

1kg beef

1 cup of very rich stock

10cups of spinach leaves, finely chopped

5cups of waterleaf, finely chopped

500g dried fish

500g stockfish, cleaned and softened

300g kpomo(cow skin ){optional}

1 1/2 cups crayfish, ground

Chili pepper to taste(atagungun)

3 seasoning cubes

3 cups of palm oil

1 onion bulb

Salt to taste

Tip: Water-leaf has water so ensure the stock is little but rich to avoid having too much water in the soup-

NOTE: you can add periwinkle,snails shrimps,  etc....

Directions

Wash all the ingredients thoroughly

Season and boil your meat to make your stock

When the meat is soft, add the stockfish, kpomo and cook further

When you have about one cup of water in the pot, add the spinach leaves and cook for about 3minutes

Add the waterleaf, crayfish and the palm oil

Cook for about 5minutes

Add the seasoning cubes and pepper

Add salt to taste

Remove from heat

Your edikaikong is ready

Serve with pounded-yam, eba and any dish of your choice

……………………………… Enjoy