Hello beautiful people, welcome back to another simple recipe on the online cook’s authentic Nigerian food blog. In this recipe post, I will share with you how to make delicious and comforting Nigerian rice and beans.
The combination of perfectly cooked basmati rice with Nigerian brown beans creates a delicious meal that everyone will enjoy.
In Nigeria, beans is a staple food that is used to make a wide variety of dishes such as moi moi – which is also known as steamed beans pudding- akara, gbegiri and many more.
There are different types of beans in Nigeria, generally most Nigerian beans have a long cooking time when compared to the cooking time of basmati rice.
This is the reason why when many people want to eat rice and beans, there cook the rice and beans separately and then serve both together.
But in this recipe, I will share with you how to cook basmati rice and Nigerian brown beans together and to have well soften Nigerian beans and fluffy basmati rice.
You can also learn how to cook fluffy basmati rice at home with this basmati rice recipe.
Now let’s proceed to the list of ingredients needed to prepare this delicious meal
Ingredients
- 2 cups basmati rice
- 2 cups brown beans
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/2 tbsp salt
The name of beans I use for this recipe is oloyin beans because of its natural sweetness.
But you can use other types of Nigerian beans like olotu beans or white beans.
For other types of beans, the same cooking process applies too. All you need to do is follow the step by step guide below.
Let’s start cooking
How to cook basmati rice with brown beans together
- Hand-pick the dirt from the beans
- Rinse the beans multiple times with clean water
- Place a pot on the stove
- Put the clean beans in the pot
- Add water and cook till the water begins to boil
- Place a colander in a big bowl
- Pour all the content of the pot into the colander to separate the water from the beans
- Transfer the beans into the pot
- Add water and cook the beans until it becomes very soft – you can also add more water if needed
You can test the softness of the beans by scooping some in a spoon and pressing them with your finger. They should be easy to crush, another way to check the softness of the beans is to taste it.
- Allow the soft beans to continue cooking, then measure the required amount of basmati rice into a bowl
- Rinse the rice thoroughly with water twice
- Then pour the clean rice into the pot of beans and add more water it needed
- Also add salt for taste and vegetable oil
- Stir well to combine, so that the beans doesn’t stay down while the rice stays up
- Cover the pot with the lid and cook on high heat
- Open the pot and gently stir the rice and beans when the water begins to boil over
- The cover the pot halfway with the lid and continue cooking – this is to ensure that the water doesnt boil over
- Cook the rice till it is 90% cooked, the best way to check this is by tasting it
- Now place a colander over a big bowl
- Pour the all the rice, beans and the water in the pot into the colander
- Allow the water drain into the bowl, then pour the rice and beans back into the pot
- Cover the pot with the lid and cook on low heat for 2 minutes to dry the liquid
- Turn off the stove
- Allow the rice and beans rest for 10 minutes so that the heat within the pot would thoroughly cook the rice to 100 percent
And this is how to cook basmati rice with brown beans together to achieve for a tasty meal. This is a simple homemade meal you can enjoy for lunch or dinner.
Rice and beans is ready to be enjoyed as it is, with pepper sauce or stew.
Thank you for visiting my food blog today. I hope you enjoyed reading this recipe, do let me know in the comments how you like to enjoy your rice and beans.
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