If you don’t like beans when cooked alone, especially in porridge, try this rice and beans recipe. To get a new flavour from beans, cook them with another staple, and this exceptional delicacy is worth your time, you can give it a try by following this simple guide in the subsequent section.

Ingredients for Rice and Beans

1.3 cups rice

2. 2 cups beans

3. Fresh tomatoes 700ml

4. 3 Tablespoons canned tomatoes

5. 3 seasoning cubes

6. 1 cup of sliced onions

7. 1 kg Chicken

8. 1 teaspoon of powdered ginger

9. 1 teaspoon of powdered garlic

10. 500 ml Vegetable oil

11. 5 scotch bonnet peppers.

Steps to Prepare Rice and Beans

Step 1: Precook the beans and rice separately, then rinse and set them in separate bowls.

Step 2: Grind the tomatoes (700 mL). Add 5 Scotch bonnet peppers and mix everything.

Step 3: Season the chicken with 2 stock/seasoning cubes, 1/2 cup sliced onions, and salt. Allow the chicken to boil for 10–15 minutes.

Step 4: Fry the chicken and keep the stock aside.

Step 5: Precook the beans alone in water for 35-40 minutes.

Step 6: Fry the tomatoes in 300ml of vegetable oil.

Step 7: Add half a cup of sliced onions, saute for a minute, and then sauté the tomatoes.

Step 8: Stir as it fries. It should take around 15-20 minutes, then remove half once thoroughly fried.

Step 9: Add the chicken stock (meat water), 2 cups of water, 1 seasoning cube, salt to taste, and a teaspoon each of curry powder and ground ginger/garlic.

Step 10: Stir and bring to a boil.

Step 11: Taste for salt, then add the rice and beans. Stir in the remaining tomatoes and half a cup of diced onion.

Step 12: Cover the saucepan and cook for 35-40 minutes. Stir and serve.

Variations to Cooking 

You can personalise this porridge dish in the following ways:

• Using Palm Oil
• Boiling them together instead of doing it separately, Jollof Rice and Beans
• Using the African method, Puerto Rican/Cuban, or Jamaican manner.
• Preparing Jollof with Fish in Hausa. Rice and Beans
• Rice and beans with chicken or sausage.

What Do You Call a Rice and Bean Combination?

Instant pot beans and rice have been a classic match for thousands of years throughout African and Latino heritage, whether it’s Hoppin’ John or Red Beans and Rice.

In Central America, the bean and rice combination is commonly known as matrimonio (“the marriage”).

What are the Advantages of Combining Rice with Beans?

However, when paired with beans, it promotes carbohydrate metabolism. In terms of protein, rice and beans when combined provide complete protein, containing all of the essential amino acids (protein building blocks) found in dairy, meat, poultry and fish.

Should Beans be Eaten with Rice?

However, beans contain amino acids that rice lacks, and vice versa. So eating a plate of rice and beans provides all of the necessary amino acids. In reality, you do not have to eat beans and rice together; simply consume them on the same day.