Ewa riro is full of soft, creamy beans stewed in a thick slightly sweet and savory sauce of red peppers, palm oil, and crayfish.
Using more onions and sweet peppers than tomatoes mutes the acidic notes tomatoes can add, especially when cooked in red palm oil.
My food journey fascinates me. My love of ewa riro, Nigerian stewed beans, did not start in my Nigerian home. No, it started with Heinz sweet baked beans, and even that took years for me to like—it wasn't until I was nine years old that I had any interest in food at all. The base sauce is a blend of onions, tomatoes, sweet peppers, and hot peppers, cooked down and, if desired, seasoned with ground crayfish, an essential seasoning across regional cuisines in Nigeria . Crayfish, actually small dried shrimp and prawns, bring sweet, fermented funk—like Thai fish sauce—to Nigerian soups, stews, sauces, and more. Sometimes, people substitute dried fish or smoked fish.
For a quicker method, drained and rinsed canned black-eyed peas can be used instead of dried. You’ll need three 15-ounce cans to replace the dried beans called for i this recipe. Red shepherd peppers are sweet, long, thin-skinned Italian peppers, similar to Nigerian tatashe peppers. They have great flavor and bring a deep red color toGround crayfish is made from krill, shrimps, and small prawns that are often sun-dried and smoked.
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