Happy almost weekend to hivers and vegan 🌱 friends 😍❤️

Another weekend is here friends and as we warm up, I know we will like to enjoy something delicious and savory at the same time. Today am sharing with you a dish of sweet corn 🌽 and brown beans in a porridge recipe that is so scrumptious.

This recipe is simply sweet and savory and one I enjoyed so much while growing up as my mother usually cooks this meal 🥘, combining young sweet corn with kidney beans gotten from my grandmother farm 👵. Its always delicious and taste so homemade.

And with corn still in season in my region I decided to prepare and share this vegan 🌱 whole meal with you friends, where corn 🌽 and beans becomes much more in our menu list and from our kitchen to the dinning table.

In West African cooking 🧑‍🍳, corn is a popular starchy meal 🥘 prepared in different ways especially during corn season when the corn looks fresh and delicious. This recipe is however very simple and straightforward with just few every day cooking kitchen spices to add savory to it.

Here I take you with me through every step by step to this recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

2 medium fresh sweet corn 200 g of brown beans 2 cherry tomatoes 1/2 teaspoon of hot chili powder 11/2 teaspoon of curry powder Few leaves 🍃 of mint Salt to taste

EXTRA INGREDIENTS:

20 ml of red palm oil

STEPS FOR PREPARATION:

STEP 1.

The corn and beans are the two base ingredients here. First thing we do is wash the corn and set it on the cooker covering to boil and tender.

As above here.

Then drain in a basket to cool down.

Step 2.

We also wash, set the beans to per boil, drain the first water away for excess gas.

Then we pour the beans back into the pot, adding fresh water and salt, cover to cook.

Step 3.

While the beans is cooking, We will cut out the corn kennels out from the cob .

As here above.

Step 4

We wash the Cherry Tomatoes 🍅, the mint leaves 🍃 and slice them readily.

Step 5.

Here once the beans tenders, we add the corn 🌽 to the beans, stir and allow to cook together for few minutes more.

Then we add the sliced cherry tomatoes 🍅 and mint leaves 🍃. Adding also the curry powder and chili powder.

Stir them properly to incorporate while still cooking.

Step 6.

And we add the red palm oil here for that delight taste. You can add vegetable oil if desired or red food color here.

Step 7.

We allow the oil to cook into the food and set it down to serve.

That brings us to enjoy this recipe. Its so simple yet packs flavors that will definitely lure you to prepare this curry sweet corn 🌽 beans porridge. Although one that looks traditional but also prepared in an exquisite creative cousin way.

And you have many opinions to this recipe by using either fresh corn cobs, sweet packs readily corn from groceries or the sweet can corn from supermarkets that makes corn available to us all year round. You can’t afford to miss out on this recipe.

Thank you for your time with me through this recipe dear friends . Enjoy 😍❤️💕.

Images are mine.