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Ibishyimbo

Name: Ibishyimbo
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Rwanda
Ingredients: 300g (dried) Red kidney beans; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 1.5L Water

Side Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Kidney beans simmered tender with onion and tomato — Rwanda's everyday beans.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ibishyimbo is Kinyarwanda for beans, and Rwandans are known as some of the world's biggest bean lovers. Red kidney beans are simmered tender, seasoned with onion, tomato, and a little oil, and eaten almost every day with rice, boiled bananas, or tubers.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dinner in a Rwandan home, a pot of red beans is set out with plates of rice and boiled bananas.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Red kidney beans 300g (dried)
Onion 1
Tomato 2
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Water 1.5L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the beans overnight, change the water, and boil for 1.5 hours until tender.
Heat oil in a frying pan and sauté the onion and tomato.
Add to the beans and mix.
Add salt and simmer 15 minutes.
Serve with rice or boiled bananas.

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