Ewa agoyin
Ewa agoyin, from above
Non vegLagos

Ewa agoyin

Soft mashed beans under a near black, fried pepper sauce. Lagos' favourite breakfast.

100 minTime
27 gProtein each
hotSpice
4hPlan ahead. Soak for 4 hours first; the 100 minutes come after.
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Make it your way

Grandma's wayMashed honey beans with dark fried pepper sauce.
The original
618kcalsame
27 gproteinsame
14 gfibresame
100minutessame

Classic ewa agoyin.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

4 servings
Lobia, dry (dried black eyed peas)2 cups honey beans or black eyed peas
Waterfor boiling
Saltto taste
Red palm oil½ cup
Onion2 large, sliced
Dried red chillidried red peppers, soaked and blended
Scotch bonnet chilli (habanero or scotch bonnet pepper, habanero chilli)1
Ground dried crayfish (ground dried shrimp)1 tbsp
Stock cube (bouillon cube)½ cube

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Boil the beans until very soft, adding water as needed, then mash lightly with salt.
  2. 2Heat the palm oil until it clears, then fry the onions low and slow until very dark.
  3. 3Add the blended peppers, crayfish and stock cube and fry, stirring, until very dark and oily.
  4. 4Spoon the beans into bowls and pour the sauce over.
Serve it like this

Scoop beans into a bowl and spoon the dark sauce on top. Serve with soft bread or fried plantain.

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What goes with Ewa agoyin: a bread or rice, a side, something to drink and something sweet.

Bread or rice Methi thepla40 min
Bread or rice Jeera rice30 min
On the side Dodo15 min
On the side Eba10 min
To drink Zobo40 min
Something sweet Puran poli90 min
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