Today I decided to cook a healthy and low-budget breakfast with ingredients I already have in my kitchen. I had no cash with me but had to eat, so I entered my kitchen and was able to gather some leftover sweet potatoes and white beans. Plus, I already had ingredients like crayfish, oil, and the rest, so I said to myself, Why not cook beans and sweet potato porridge?
Beans are a healthy food, and so are sweet potatoes. Combining these two foods will make a super-tasty meal. So I removed dirt from the white beans, prepared and measured my other ingredients, and dived into cooking as soon as possible.
I've posted an article on beans and porridge previously on my blog, in which I used brown beans and scent leaves. You can check it out here.
Ingredients to cook beans and sweet potato porridge on a low budget for 3 servings
- Beans - 2cups
- Sweet potatoes - 6 small size
- Fresh or dried pepper - quarter cup
- Onion - 1 small size
- Red oil - quarter cup
- Crayfish - 1 tablespoon
- Seasoning and salt - 2 seasoning cubes and salt to taste.
How to prepare white bean porridge with sweet potatoes
- Wash and clean all ingredients: The first thing I did was wash all the food ingredients.
- Cook the beans : Put the beans on fire and cook until soft (You can parboil the beans if you like). While the beans is cooking, I peeled the sweet potatoes and blended the pepper and onion.
- Add the potatoes: Next, I added the sweet potatoes once the beans were tender. Sweet potatoes cook quickly, so I didn't add them at the same time as the beans because the beans require longer to get tender. I did not mix the raw sweet potatoes with the cooked beans; what I did was use my cooking spoon to press in the potatoes. Be careful not to add too much water.
- Make the beans sauce: When the potatoes got soft, I removed the pot from the stove so I could fry the palm oil and the other ingredients to make the beans sauce. To prepare bean sauce is simply; heat up a pot or frying pan and add palm oil (allow the oil to get hot before adding the other ingredients). Add onion, crayfish, scotch bonnet pepper 🌶️, seasoning of choice, and salt to taste. Stir fry for 5 -10 minutes.
- Mix the beans with the sauce: I poured the sauce into the pot of beans and sweet potatoes. I mixed it thoroughly and covered it up to cook for an extra 5 minutes.
- Food is ready 🙂.
