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Ghanaian Red Red

My Diaspora Kitchen recipe - ghanaian

Ingredients

Quantities are shown as originally provided.

3 cups Black eyed peas ((cleaned and soaked overnight))
2 medium onions (( chopped ))
1 Tbsp sugar or 2 satchets of truvia sweetener. ((I sweeten my black eyed peas but not my brown beans))
1½ cup Palm oil
2 Tbsp ground crayfish ((optional))
salt/ bouillon to taste
2 large red bell peppers ??
1 large plum tomato ?
1 Habanero or scotch bonnet pepper
2 garlic cloves ((crushed))
Water ??

1
Decant excess water from soaked beans,then rinse lightly careful not to peel the beans.
2
When the beans begins to boil, add half of the chopped onions, sweetener and salt / bouillon to taste.
3
Cook till beans is well cooked and soft but not mushy. While the beans is cooking, prepare the sauce.
4
Wash tomatoes and peppers then blend coarsely.
5
Heat up Palm oil in a sauce pan, Please watch closely. Saute the other half of the chopped onions with the crushed garlic till onions become translucent
6
Pour in the tomato/pepper blend,then the crayfish. Stir in and Cook sauce till it reduces in size (water has evaporated) and is well fried. Then turn off heat.
7
When the beans is well cooked, and soft to touch, reduce heat and mix in the sauce with the cooked beans until well blended.
8
Turn off heat.
9
Serve with fried plantains which happens to be the second 'red' in 'Red-Red'
10
Or serve with sprinkle of garri (cassava flakes) over the beans.