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This morning I will be showing us how to prepare one of our local dishes here in Nigeria. The recipe is always called 'Ewa Agoyin' and am going to be including fried plantain in the recipe so you can all enjoy this meal wherever you are all over the world.
Yummy Food Ewa agoyin and fried plantain must be our favorite nigerian cuisine. Today we will prepare Ewa agoyin and fried plantain. Ewa Agoyin is an indigenous yoruba meal, a combination of beans and pepper sauce. An authentic Ewa Agoyin sauce requires using a lot of palm oil, and bleaching it before using it to fry the pepers. The peppers used for Ewa Agonyin sauce are dried bell peppers, cameroon peppers and dried.
Ewa Agoyin is usually eaten with a soft bread, boiled yams and fried plantains and it tastes realllllllllllly good. Here's how to make it at home.
Sweet beans (oloyin) with plantain is a very healthy and delicious dish which can always be customised to your own taste by adding any fish of your choice.
Ingredients for the Ewa Agoyin
- The Beans: 2 cups Red or White beans
- Salt to taste
Cooking instructions for the Ewa Agoyin
To Prepare the Beans:
Wash the beans under running water
Add 6 cups of water to a pot, set on high heat and bring to a boil.
Add the beans and reduce the heat to minimum.
Leave on low heat for 2 hours 30 minutes or until the beans is very soft.
Add salt to taste.
Mash up the beans if you prefer.
Ingredients for the Ewa Agoyin Stew
1 Take of Dried ghana pepper.
2 You need of Dried long atarodo also known as red pepper.
3 Take 4 of medium sized onions (sliced).
4 It’s of Crayfish.
5 Take of Small cut fresh ginger.
6 Approximately of Salt.
7 About of Seasoning.
8 You need of Palm oil (enough to submerge and fry properly).
Cooking Instructions for the Ewa Agoyin Stew.
Step 1 Soak the crayfish, and peppers for 4-5hours with minimal water.
Step 2 Then blend the soaked pepper, ginger and crayfish with some of the water used in soaking it (little water).
Step 3 Bleach the palm oil in a well ventilated area for 5-7minutes or until light on cooking spoon and slightly brownish.
Step 4 Turn off the heat on the bleach oil and let it cool slightly.
Step 5 Then pour in the thinly sliced onions into the bleached palm oil and turn on the heat to medium then fry until the onions begins to float on top the oil and looks slightly brown (takes like 20-25minutes).
Step 6 And add the blended peppers then continue to fry add salt and seasoning.
Step 7 Continue frying and stirring as you fry until the peppers and onions begins to feel slight gritty when you press down with the spoon (takes like 25-30minutes).
Step 8 Then set down and turn off heat.
With this the Ewa Agoyin and the Stew is ready now let's prepare the fried plantain.
How to fry plantain
This recipe makes use of ripe plantain which is the best type for fried plantain. I also don't add salt to fry plantain as they are naturally sweet but you can add salt to it if you like.
Peel and slice plantains. You might add salt after adding then mix altogether (optional).
Add oil in a pan and put on heat. When oil is heated , arrange cut plantains in the oil.
Fry for about 5 minutes on medium heat or till golden brown then turn to fry the other side.
- Transfer to kitchen towel lined plate to drain excess oil then serve.
Now we are good to go, it's time to serve the meal. Have a look at what I got below. Drop your comment below to know if you really got it.
You can ask your questions in the comments box I would reply as soon as possible. Have a nice day ahead.