A Recipe From The Nomadic Populations From East Africa
Beans are originally from Hungary. This last country is located in the Balkan countries in South East Europe. You can find beans mainly in East Africa meaning Tanzania and Burundi and in Central America in Mexico.
Ingredient:
For five persons
- 1 kilo of Red beans or white beans
- 500 mg of rice
- 1 tin of spinanch or
- 500 mg of spinanch leaves
- 1 tea spoon of sunflower oil
or vegetable oil
- 5 pieces of chicken legs
- 2 fresh tomatoes
- 5 Corn on the cob
- 5 sweet bananas for dessert
- 1 bottle of water
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Preparation:
- Wash, dry and boil dry beans for one hour
- Wash, cut spinanch into pieces and boil for one hour
- Sort, wash and boil rice for one hour
- Boil chicken legs and tomatoes together until water evaporates
- Let the chicken legs fry on all sides
- Add spinanch to beans as well as 1 tea spoon of sunflower oil
- Let spinanch and beans cook for 30 minutes
- Boil corn on the cob for one hour
- Spinanch and beans, rice and chicken legs are now ready to be served
- Serve corn on the cob as an appetizer
- Add sweet bananas at the end for dessert
A Story about beans one of the ingredients:
Beans make the wealth of Burundi, the base of all foods. As Hungary used to be part of Germany, Beans are very popular on Octoberfeast. Beans contain amidon which helps to reduce anger and feelings of sadness. Beans are not expensive and can be added to any dinner for small and big pockets. Beans allow you to remain humble and open minded. So, this is definitely a dish to recommend to all ages of the populations especially if they want to develop friendship.
# 1 by Brigita
October 6th, 2009 at 12:33 am #
Hello!
Just geographical correction: Hungary Is East European country, and was not part of Germany, but formed Empire with Austria during Habsburgs.
Otherwise thanks for original and interesting recipe, I am trying to find more about African cousine.
When it comes to origin of beans:
Beans originated in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East where they have been cultivated for thousands of years. Beans were found in the tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs and they were still viable after centuries of storage. It is thought that the first beans were brought to America from Europe/Siberia by nomadic tribes crossing the Bering Strait into Alaska. Large and baby lima beans originated in Peru, thus the name “lima”. They were brought to California on a merchant ship around 1900.
(http://missvickie.com/howto/beans/beanframe.html)