Cowpeas with millet

Name: Cowpeas with millet
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Burkina Faso
Ingredients: 600 g fully cooked drained cowpeas; 200 g tomatoes; 150 g onion; 20 g vegetable oil; 900 ml water; 3 g salt; 250 g dry food-grade millet grains

🫘 Fully cooked cowpeas are reheated with whole-grain millet.

Ingredients

600 g fully cooked drained cowpeas
200 g tomatoes
150 g onion
20 g vegetable oil
900 ml water
3 g salt
250 g dry food-grade millet grains

Preparation

Use fully cooked drained cowpeas, prepared according to packaging or drained canned beans. Slice onion and chop tomatoes.

Soften onion in oil 5 minutes, then cook tomatoes for 8 minutes.

Rinse 250 g millet. Add with 900 ml water and cook covered about 20 minutes, or according to product, until tender. Stir in cowpeas and salt and heat another 10 minutes.

Adjust liquid. If needed, mash a small spoonful of cowpeas to bind, then divide into four portions.