My sweet porridge beans and plantain are served. Exploring Nigerian meals.

Beans and plantain is one of Nigeria's best meals, prepared in most homes.

Beans and plantain has valuable nutritional content, which are good for a healthy body. Beans is proteinous and plantain on the other contains iron which is also a vital element, the body needs.

So today I made beans and plantain for lunch.

Here are the lists of items I used in the preparation;

Two cups of beans
Three fingers of plantain (ripped mixed with unripe)
Palm oil
Seasoning cubes/ salt
Onion
Dried smoked fish
Dried pepper
Crayfish
Vegetable

Procedure

Now everyone has there way of exploring their cooking skills. Most people love cooking the porridge beans, and then boil, or fry the plantain separately. Now this was how I made mine.

-Firstly I picked my beans, this was to remove unwanted particles from my beans. After which I parboiled it for about fifteen minutes. Before parboiled, I added salt to the beans, this was to make the beans soften quickly. Now most people soak their beans in water for couple of hours before preparing. Believe me, which ever way you apply, would still give you the same result.

_ After parboiling, I rinsed the parboiled beans, and added another water to the beans and continued cooking. After which I added my chopped plantain to the pot of boiled beans, and added my sliced onion and allow to cook for some minutes.

• when my beans and plantain started boiling, I added my seasonings, salt, pepper, grounded crayfish and smoked dried fish into the pot. I allow to cook again.

_ opening my pot, my whole ingredients had married themselves. Then I added my palm oil, mixed it carefully and closed the pot.

_ Finally after adding my palm oil my meal was now ready. I then chopped my vegetables. Now adding vegetables are optional.

My sweet porridge beans and plantain was ready.

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