Pegion peas

Name: Pegion peas
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: serves 4 servin
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 2 cups pegion peas boiled; 1 medium onion, diced; 1 tomato, diced; 1 whole small garlic; Salt; 4 tbsp veg oil or coconut oil; 1/2 cup Water; 1 cup coconut milk; 1/2 cup coconut cream (optional)

Tumiso Foods @tumiso

Kenya

This is a coastal breakfast delicacy. Usually cooked in coconut milk. It reminds me of my life in Likoni, a sub county in Mombasa where I lived for almost 7 years. Very filling, a good source of dietary fibre, protein and minerals. Very good for pregnancy due to folate. #breakfastideas

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Ingredients

prep 10cook 20 mins

serves 4 servin

2 cupspegion peas boiled
1medium onion, diced
1tomato, diced
1whole small garlic
Salt
4 tbspveg oil or coconut oil
1/2 cupWater
1 cupcoconut milk
1/2 cupcoconut cream (optional)

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Steps

prep 10cook 20 mins

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Have ingredients in one place
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Put oil and onions in cooking pot on medium high heat
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When the onions turn golden add crushed garlic and stir till aromatic.
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Add tomatoes and stir until tender and the oil separates from the tomato mixture.
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Add boiled pegion peas and Salt, stir. Add some of the water it was boiled in. (this water has alot of nutrients that leached out during Boiling). Let it cook on medium high heat for 3 minutes
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Add the coconut milk (I added water in my coconut cream to make it lighter), stir and cover. Let it simmer on low heat for 5- 10 minutes untill much of the water has evaporated.
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Serve with preferred starch, cassava, sweet potato e.tc. I served mine with swahili doughnuts commonly known as mahamri

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Tumiso Foods @tumiso

on April 10, 2020 10:45

Kenya

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