homemade Ghanaian - Senegalese : Waakye (Rice & beans) , stew & Dibi

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Togo: Ayimolou Benin : Atassi Nigeria: Rice and beans Waakey 2 cups rice 1 cup red beans or black-eyed peas, or any kind of beans or peas 4 dry sorghum leaves (or 1 teaspoon of baking soda) 1 small onion Salt to taste water Wash and soak the beans in water for 3–4 hours. Drain the beans and place them in a large pot of water. Bring the mixture to a boil and let it cook for about 45 minutes. Wash the sorghum leaves. Cut the leaves 3 to 4 inches, toss them in with the boiling beans, and allow them to cook together. If sorghum leaves are not available, add a teaspoon of baking soda to give the Waakye its characteristic color. Remove the sorghum leaves from the beans after 5 minutes. Wash the rice and add to the beans in the pot, along with more water. Allow the mixture to cook for 15–20 minutes (or until the beans are tender and the rice is cooked and all liquid has been totally absorbed). Be sure that the mixture does not burn and keep stirring while it cooks. Season with salt. Stew 3 onions (Sliced) 3 tomatoes puree 2 scotch bonnet pepper (depending on how spicy you want it) 1 small can of tomato paste 2 cup of oil 1 teaspoon of ginger 2 teaspoon of garlic 1 teaspoon of cube 1 teaspoon of black pepper 1 cup of african small smoked fish Spices (Lawry's seasoning salt,black pepper,parsley flakes,etc...any of your choice) Add the oil to sauce pan, after 1 minute sliced onion, on medium heat; stir for 35 min. Add in your tomato paste, let it simmer for 20mins. Add all the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients little by little To avoid a mess: oil and water don't mix Let simmer for 20 mins, you can't stop stirring Dibi 1-2lb loin chops 1 medium onion, finely chopped 1⁄4 cup grainy French mustard 1 teaspoon of ginger 2 teaspoon of garlic 1 teaspoon of cube 1 teaspoon of black pepper 1 teaspoon of bouillon cube salt 3*50 mm Aluminium foil Pose 1 foil on top of the other (kinder perpendicular) Add and Mix all the ingredients and close put the 3rd foil on top Put it in the oven for 1 hour at 450F. after that time open and stir put it back in the oven and stir every 15 min for another hour.