Today’s Healthy Dish: African Rice and Beans

-By Immaculate Bites

African Rice and Beans — spicy flavorful rice and beans combo flavored with onions, thyme, smoked paprika and garlic.

In most parts of West Africa , beans are cooked  separate from rice . It’s not fairly common to see rice and beans cooked together.

The inspiration of this dish is from Ghanaian dish Waakye – A rustic dish made with rice ,  beans(black-eyed peas )  and  kanwa .

Here is my version of this spicy flavorful rice and beans. While I absolutely love smoked meat or fish in my beans; I thought it would to a good idea to make this without any fish. However, if you have crayfish do include them to make up for the loss of the smoky flavor.

 

I did not include crayfish in this version. I added some smoked paprika to make it tastier and it always does the trick

(Source: https://www.africanbites.com/african-rice-and-beanswaakye/ )