Try this tasty Nigerian chicken stew served with rice and beans. The best way to enjoy freshly cooked white rice and plain beans is usually with a flavorful stew and succulent meat you can add fried plantain (dodo). This sumptuous Nigerian dish is a great deal let’s hop into how to cook rice and beans stew.

Ingredients Rice and Beans With Stew

1. White Rice

2. Black-eyed beans, or your preferred bean

3  Different Meats: 1 kilogramme or more, based on the size of the dish being prepared.

4. Eight huge tomatoes, three scotch bonnets (spicy peppers), and two large onions, all cut.

5. Paste made of tomatoes

6. Oil made from vegetables

7. Thyme

8. Seasoning to taste for either beef or chicken

9. Curry seasoning

10. Masala/Knorr cubes for seasoning

11. Minced garlic and ginger

12. Add salt to taste.

A tip: using different types of meat gives the stew more taste. You can choose whichever meat you want to use to make your assorted.

How to Cook Rice and Beans With Stew

Step 1: Fill a pot with rice and boil. Put beans in another pot and then boil. Now while the rice and beans are cooking, start preparing the stew ingredients.

Step 2: Thoroughly clean and wash the meat. Once the meat is bite-sized, add it to a saucepan. Add curry, Maggi/Knorr cubes, onion, ginger, garlic, and thyme for seasoning. Add seasoning for meat or chicken.

Step 3: Boil and let it cool until the meat is soft. Taste and adjust the salt accordingly. Stir occasionally to ensure that the meat absorbs all of the ingredients. Boil the meat with a little water.

Step 4: Mix tomatoes, pepper, onion, ginger, and garlic together roughly.

Step 5: Place a large skillet over medium heat, add vegetable oil, add the sliced onions, and cook for about 2 minutes. Once the oil has risen to the top, pour in the blended tomato mixture and continue to sauté it.

Step 6: Add the broth and cooked meat to the frying pan now. Mix thoroughly and stir. Check for seasoning with a taste of salt and pepper and adjust if needed. 

Step 7: Simmer over medium heat for approximately fifteen minutes. Let it cook with the meat and its juicy water instead of adding any more.

Step 8: Place the rice and beans on a platter, then pour the stew sauce over them. can have Dodo on top as well.

What Do Rice and Beans Go With?

Beans and rice go well together with beef, pork, or chicken as well as tacos, and burritos. Add the ground cumin after sautéing the onion and garlic until done. Before adding your broth, frying the dried rice in the oil truly brings out those flavours. 

You can use beef broth, but I prefer to use chicken stock. After adding the beans and bringing everything to a boil, cook the rice until it is soft. To prevent your rice from becoming mushy, stir it only once around halfway through the cooking procedure.

Do You Add Rice to Stew?

You can extend the duration of your meals by adding raw rice to soups, stews, and casseroles. Before cooking, add one cup of raw rice and two cups of broth or water to your dish. As the rice cooks in the oven or on the hob, it will absorb the water or broth.

Is Beans and Rice a Full Meal?

Rice and beans are as complete of a meal on its own as you can get. This is because rice and beans provide complementary amino acids. On their own, beans and rice are incomplete proteins, meaning they lack some of the essential amino acids.