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Ibiharage

Name: Ibiharage
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Burundi
Ingredients: 300g (dried) Red kidney beans; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 Tomato; 1 Chili pepper; 3 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp Salt; 1.5L Water

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Tender beans braised in oil with onion and garlic — Burundi's everyday beans.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ibiharage means 'beans' in Kirundi and is the national dish eaten almost daily in Burundi. Boiled beans are braised in oil with onion, garlic, and chili and seasoned with salt. Eaten with ubugali, bananas, or rice, it sustains a table where much of the protein comes from beans.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a hilltop home in Burundi, steam rises from a pot over charcoal as beans fragrant with fried onion are spooned onto plates.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Red kidney beans 300g (dried)
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Tomato 1
Chili pepper 1
Vegetable Oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 1.5L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the beans in plenty of water overnight.
Change the water and boil about 1 hour until tender, then drain, reserving a little cooking liquid.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the sliced onion until golden.
Add the minced garlic, chopped tomato, and chili and sauté 5 minutes.
Add the beans and a little cooking liquid, add salt, and simmer about 10 minutes to coat.

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