How To Make Ewa Agoyin Recipe | Agoyin Sauce

This is the most popular and delicious meal to enjoy in Nigeria. It is very easy and trust me you will love it.

The name of the food I am making today is called ewa agoyin and agoyin sauce.

It is mouth-watering beans recipe and trust me, after using this recipe to make your own, you would want to enjoy ewa agoyin ever morning. All you have to do is to trust the process.

One thing about this meal is the fact that it is a well sought-after street food as well as a popular breakfast option for many Nigerians.

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Firstly, I will list the ewa agoyin sauce ingredients and ewa agoyin beans ingredients.

Ewa Agoyin Sauce Ingredients

1 cup Agoyin sauce mix
3 cups water
3 Onions
1 1/2 cup bleached palm oil
1/2 cup Palm oil
1 teaspoon salt
3 Stock cubes

Ewa Agoyin Ingredients

2Brown beans
Water
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar ( optional)

The above, is a picture one of the types of Nigerian beans used for this recipe. It is called oloyin beans.

Another type of brown beans that can be used is olotu beans. This beans has a slightly darker colour when compared to oloyin beans.

How To Make Ewa Agoyin Stew

This beans dish is not complete without this signature sauce. Ewa agoyin sauce is also known as agoyin stew.

I will be using Agoyin pepper mix from this shop for this recipe but you can also make this sauce from scratch as I did in my previous recipe here.

I will go ahead to write about how to make ewa agoyin stew.

Pour 1 cup of agoyin pepper mix into a bowl
Pour 2-3 cups of water into the bowl
Mix well to combine
Set aside
Peel and slice onions
Or blend onions to a paste (optional)
Place a clean pot on the cooker
Pour the palm oil and bleached palm oil into the pot
Heat up well
Fry the sliced onions/onions paste or both in the hot oil till it look semi-dried.
Transfer the prepared agoyin mix into the hot oil
Season with salt and stock cubes
Mix very well to combine
Fry very well on medium heat for 20 -30 minutes or till the sauce is dry.
Ewa agoyin sauce is ready.

While the sauce cools down, I will proceed with the details to how to make ewa agoyin with the ingredients which would be listed below.

How To Cook Ewa Agoyin

Sort through the beans to remove any chaff , stone or dirt.
Clean sorted beans twice with only water and then set aside
Pour water into a pot
Add the cleaned beans and boil for 7 minutes or till it begins to boil if you are cooking in a bigger quantity
Place a basket in the kitchen sink the pour the boiled beans into it to drain the water
After draining the beans water, pour the beans back into the pot
Add 2 1/2 cups of water
Cook till it is very soft.
Ensure you taste it at regular intervals to confirm its softness.
Mash the beans very well just as can be seen in the video.
Ewa agoyin is ready to be enjoyed.

ewa agoyin sauce recipe — Ewa agoyin with fried potatoes.

Common food suggestions for ewa agoyin

Here are some food suggestion for you, so that you would be able to properly savour the uniqueness of this delicious dish.

Ewa agoyin with fried or boiled potatoes
Agoyin beans with fried or boiled yam
Ewa agoyin beans with bread
Agoyin beans and garri
Porridge oats with ewa agoyin
Custard with Ewa agoyin beans

The point here is that, you can easily combine this beans dish with any food that you would ordinarily enjoy with other meals made with beans that can be seen in the beans recipes section

Below is a video showing the entire process listed here.