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Red Red

Name: Red Red
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Ghana
Ingredients: 250g (dried) Black-eyed peas; 4 tbsp Palm oil; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 1 piece Ginger; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 Red Chili Pepper; 1 tsp Salt; 2 Plantain; To taste Oil for frying

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Black-eyed peas stewed in palm oil and tomato and served with fried plantain — Ghana's red bean dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Red red is a stew of black-eyed peas cooked in palm oil and tomato, eaten with fried ripe plantain. The name is said to come from its two reds: the palm oil and the plantain. It's an easy, nourishing home dish in Ghana, often sprinkled with gari (cassava meal).

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunchtime in an Accra eatery, plates of orange bean stew and sweet fried plantain come out one after another as workers eat in a hurry.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Black-eyed peas 250g (dried)
Palm oil 4 tbsp
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Ginger 1 piece
Garlic 2 cloves
Red Chili Pepper 1
Salt 1 tsp
Plantain 2
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the black-eyed peas overnight and boil in plenty of water for 40 minutes until tender.
Heat the palm oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion.
Add the grated ginger and garlic, chopped red chili, and tomato paste and fry.
Add the chopped tomatoes and cook down 10 minutes, then add the peas and a little cooking liquid and simmer 15 minutes.
Season with salt.
Slice the plantain diagonally, fry, and serve with the beans.

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