How to Make Beans and Irish Potato Porridge
How to Make Beans and Irish Potato Porridge
Description
Beans and Irish Potato Porridge is a meal made from the combination of beans and Irish potatoes. Obviously, its major ingredients are beans and of course, Irish potatoes. This article seeks to teach you how to make Beans and Irish Potato Porridge. Stay with me.
The meal is called Faten Wake da Dankalin Turawa in the Hausa language. It is a meal not specially attributed to any tribe or race and as such, it can be enjoyed by anyone. When properly made, it is delicious and will make you keep craving for more.
Not only that, the health benefits of this meal will wow you as the combination of beans and Irish potatoes will result in a great amount of nutrients in the body. We will see more of the health benefits later on in this write-up.
Furthermore, it will interest you to know that beans are an amazing food as they can be cooked together with other foods to make amazing dishes such as Beans and Yam Porridge, Beans and Sweet Potato Porridge, Beans and Spaghetti Joloff, and many more.
Without any further ado, let’s see how this meal is made.
Ingredients
Ingredients for Making Beans and Irish Potato Porridge
Instructions
Procedures for Making Beans and Irish Potato Porridge
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Wash the tomatoes, pepper, and 1 of the onions. Now cut them into medium sizes and grate them. Set them aside. Also, slice the other onion left and set aside separately.
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Peel the Irish potatoes with Irish potato peeler and cut them into small pieces. Wash it very well and keep it aside.
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Add water into the small cooking pot, wash the 1½ beans very well, and add the washed beans to the pot. Cook it for approximately 20 minutes under medium heat or until it is almost done.
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Place the other pot on medium heat, add the palm oil to the pot, add the first sliced onion, and allow to fry for 2 minutes.
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Add the grated vegetables, seasoning cube, spices, cloves, ginger, salt to taste, and garlic. Allow to fry for 3 minutes.
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Add water to the pot and cover it. Allow to it boil
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After boiling, add the sliced and washed Irish potatoes into the pot. Allow to cook for 5 minutes.
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Then, add the cooked beans and stir properly. Cover the pot and allow to cook for at least 10-15 minutes.
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Open the pot, add the fried fish, sprinkle the sliced onion, and cover it again. Allow to simmer for 5 minutes.
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Our Beans and Irish Potato Porridge.
This can also be served on a clean plate, with chilled water or any drink of your choice.
Equipment
Note
Occasions to Serve Beans and Irish Potato Porridge
It can be served at any of the three basic meals of the day: breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Also, you can eat it whenever you feel like it.
How to Store Beans and Irish Potato Porridge
This meal can be stored for days by refrigerating it. When it has been refrigerated, don’t forget to warm it before you eat. Obviously, eating cold food is bad for your health.
On the other hand, if you are not refrigerating it, it won’t last for more than 24 hours at its best because beans have the tendency to sour quickly.
Health Benefits of Beans and Irish Potato Porridge
This delicacy is very delicious and has health benefits. It helps in lowering blood pressure, preventing scurvy, promoting weight loss, combating rheumatic diseases, and improving gut health, among many other health benefits.
In addition, this meal also helps in controlling appetite, improving fatty liver, and reducing the risk of cancer.
Conclusion
When properly made with the right timing of how the ingredients go in one after the other, you will have a delicious cuisine ready for consumption. Alternatively, you could also add sliced spinach leaves to the food and this is done while you are sprinkling the sliced onions and adding the fried fish.
I hope this article was of help to you. If you don’t mind, drop a comment below in the comments section if it is of help to you. You could also try it out for a change of meal in your house for your darling family; however, don’t forget to share your experience with us in the comments section when you do.
You could also check out how to make Meat Floss (Dambun Nama), Chicken Floss (Dambun Kaza) or Kantun Ridi.
And don’t forget, Northpad Nigeria is your home for amazing delicacies!
