MASHED BEANS WITH YAM RECIPE (EWA AGOYIN).

INGREDIENTS

Mashed beans ingredient

• 2 cups red beans
• Salt

Stew ingredient

• 1 large white onion (thinly slices)
• 1 cup palm oil
• Seasoning cubecube
• 1 large bell pepper (tatashe)
• 4 habanero peppers (Ata Rodo)
• Dried hot pepper (ata gbigbe) 
• 1 medium onion
• 1 tsp salt
• Fried meat 
• Boiled egg

Yam ingredient

• White puna yam 
• Salt(optional) 

PROCEDURES

Yam procedures

• Cut the yam tuber into 1 inch slices.
• Peel and cut the slices into half moons (rectangular shape). 
• Wash the slices, place in a pot and pour water to cover the contents.
• Boil till the yam is soft. This is when you can easily drive a fork into the slices without resistance.
• Add salt and leave to cook for about 2 minutes. This is so that the salt will seep into the yam slices.
• Turn off the heat and drain the water. 

Mashed beans procedure

• Add 6 cups of water to a pot, set on low heat. 
• Wash and add the beans
• Parboil  the beans for 30min, Drain the water and add fresh water again. 
•  We put back our pot and leave on low heat for 2hr till our beans is very soft. 
• Add salt to taste.

Stew procedure

• In a blender, we combine the bell pepper, dried pepper, habanero(rodo) pepper and the half medium onion for blending
• Set a medium sized pot on low heat, add the palm oil
• We bleach the oil for about 10-15mins
• Turn the heat to minimum, add the diced onion, stir at interval(till dark brown). 
• Add the blended pepper, into a pot with low heat to reduces the moisture in the pepper.
• Having removed the moisture, we can now add the pepper bit by bit to the fried onions.
• Taste is very important,  so we add our salt and our seasoning cube to cook for 5 minutes. 
• We can finally add our fried meat and boiled egg to cook for another 7 minute. (This is to ensure the stew enters both the meat and egg. 

Serving procedure

• We can enjoy our meal, by serving our boiled yam, mashed beans and stew. (In case you dont like yam, mashed beans goes well with bread and boiled potatoes).