Ewa Agoyin
Ingredients
2 lbs dried beans (Nigerian brown beans or Black eye peas) Picked and cleaned.
6 cups of water
3 tbs vegetable or olive oil
Salt to taste
2 tbs sugar (Optional)
Method
Cook beans in salted water with vegetable oil and or sugar till soft and tender
Adjust seasoning
Gently mash beans and let simmer for 5 minutes
Serve with fried plantain and hot pepper sauce
For the sauce:
1 large white onion (chopped)
1 cup palm oil
1tsp salt
1 cube maggi
1/4 cup dried blended crayfish
2 large roma tomatoes (hausa)
4 habanero peppers (rodo)
another half size medium onion
In a blender, combine the roma tomatoes, habanero pepper and the half medium onion. CHOP.
Set a medium sized pot on low heat, add the palm oil
Bleach the oil for 6-7mins ( it might get smoky)
Turn the heat to minimum, add the chopped onion, stir at interval until the onion is caramelized (the colour should be black). This takes about 30-40mins.
Add in the blender chopped pepper, cook for about 15mins.
Add in the crayfish, salt and magi.
Taste for seasoning
Cook on medium heat for another 10mins.
Serve on beans.
from http://alhajibabasheri.blogspot.com/2011/03/ewa-agoyin-with-fried-plantain.html and http://littlemissgastronome.blogspot.com/2011/02/ewa-agoyin.html
