The Sunday News
INGREDIENTS
3 cups sugar beans
1 beef stock cube
1 tomato chopped
3 carrots chopped
Half green pepper chopped
2 cloves garlic chopped
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon tomato sauce
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
½ onion chopped
¼ cup oil for frying
Beef bones (optional)
Method
1 Gather ingredients together. Drain and rinse your soaked sugar beans. Put them in pot and add beef bones. Add salt. Add some water which just covers the beans and boil until water is finished. When water is finished add beef stock and boil until the stock is finished. Check for tenderness of the beans and keep adding water until they are as soft as you like them.
2 When the beans are done to your liking remove from pot and put in a bowl. Heat oil in the same pot that had the beans. Add carrots and garlic and stir until carrots are almost tender. Return beans to the pot and stir. Add onions and stir.
3 Add curry powder and stir. Add tomatoes and tomato paste then stir and give time for them to cook (about 2min). Add green pepper and stir.
4 Add tomato sauce, mixed herbs, black pepper and stir.
5 Your sugar beans are ready to be served with your favourite starch such as sadza, rice or bread
Recipe Notes: To cut on cooking time, soak beans overnight or if you forget to do so soak them in boiling water for a minimum of two hours. You will achieve more or less the same results as soaking them overnight. You may buy beef bones flavouring your beans. — www.zimbokitchen.com
