Zoe's Ghana Kitchen
By Zoe Adjonyoh
About the recipe
This dish is so called, I’m told, because it’s coloured red twice – once from the red of the palm oil and a second time from the tomatoes. But there’s a lot of duplication in the titles of dishes in Ghanaian cooking in any case. This stew of black-eyed beans (cowpeas) cooked in a gently spiced tomato sauce is a great vegan dish eaten all day long in Ghana – an alternative to baked beans for breakfast or as a bean casserole for lunch or dinner. Usually eaten with fried plantain, this is tasty, nourishing comfort food that’s super easy to make.
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200g (7oz) dried black-eyed beans, or 400g (14oz) tin organic black-eyed beans
75ml (5 tablespoons) sustainable palm oil or carotene oil
1 red onion, finely diced
2.5cm (1-inch) piece fresh root ginger, finely grated
½ tablespoon dried chilli flakes
½ red Scotch bonnet chilli, deseeded and diced
½ teaspoon curry powder
½ tablespoon chilli powder
400g (14oz) tin chopped or whole plum tomatoes
200g (7oz) plum tomatoes, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon tomato purée
1 teaspoon sea salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
gari (fermented, dried and ground cassava), for sprinkling
– If using tinned chopped tomatoes, add them 20 minutes into the cooking time or stir in 1 tablespoon sugar to counterbalance the tartness of the tomatoes.
– Delicious served with a side of Simple Fried Plantain (see page 42 of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen for the recipe).
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