How to Cook Beans and Spaghetti

Beans and Spaghetti Recipe

Beans is one of the popular food items in Nigeria currently. There are lots of beans recipes I have covered in this blog. You can read these other recipes here. This particular recipe is all about combining beans and spaghetti. There are two methods you can use to cook this delicious combo and I will cover all the two in this post.

Ingredients Needed

Note, not all the ingredients will be used in all methods. Follow carefully, some will be used in method 1 while others will be for method 2.

• Beans
• Spaghetti
• Salt
• Pepper
• Onions
• Seasoning cubes
• Crayfish
• Palm oil
• Vegetable oil
• Canned Sardines
• Tomatoes

Prepping the Ingredients 

I will begin with the preparation of major ingredients starting from beans.

Beans

Beans in small containers

For this recipe I will be making use of honey beans which is a very sweet variety of beans available in Nigeria and other part of the world. Pick the beans carefully, seperating it from the chaff and removing all the stones and sands. Wash it repeatedly for about 2 to 3 times. This will help remove any impurities and preservatives from the beans. You can read more on how to prepare beans from this post.

Spaghetti

To prep spaghetti first of all cut it into two or three portions and set it aside.

Onions

Peel off the the dry and outer covering of the onions, wash and chop the onions into smaller slices.

How to Cook Beans and Spaghetti

As I mentioned earlier, I will be sharing two unique methods of cooking beans and spaghetti. I will go ahead and start with method 1.

Method 1

This is the unfried method. In this method, you begin by boiling the beans. After boiling for some minutes, sieve out the water leaving only the beans in the pot.

Add water again to the pot and begin the boiling again. When the beans tenders, add salt, pepper, the sliced onions, seasoning cubes and crayfish. Stir everything altogether, cover the pot and cook for additional minutes.

Add the palm oil and boil for like 5-6 minutes and the beans is done.

Proceed to add the spaghetti to another pot, add adequate amount of water, and about 2 tablespoonfuls of vegetable oil to the spaghetti. Boil it gently till it tenders. Continue boiling till the spaghetti tenders completely.

Boiled Spaghetti

Once this is achieved, sieve out the water from the spaghetti, then pour the spaghetti into the pot of beans you earlier cooked. Stir all of them together for a perfect blend. Gently cook it for few minutes and your delicious beans and spaghetti is ready to be served.

Method 2

This method will involve frying of the spaghetti. To begin, boil the beans as you did in the first method, follow the same procedure to sieve out the water. Add only salt and onions to the beans while cooking. Cook gently till it tenders then set it aside.

Boiled beans with onions

Proceed to cook the spaghetti using the same method above. Once you sieve out the water, set it aside. Put a dry pot on the cooker then add the vegetable oil. Heat the oil for a minute or two, add salt and onions to it. Proceed to add the tomato paste and stir to mix well. Add a little water to avoid burning the tomatoes. Add seasoning cubes, pepper, small quantity of water that will help the spaghetti and beans to mix well and additional salt to taste.

Pour in the spaghetti, stir and cover the pot for some minutes. Add the beans and stir altogether for a perfect blend. Cook for extra 5-10 minutes, keep stirring to avoid burning it. Your yummy beans and spaghetti is ready to be served.

Yummy Beans and Spaghetti

Conclusion

Beans is a very delicious meal on its own, combining it with other food to create new recipes makes it awesome. In this recipe, I have take you through the two methods of cooking beans with spaghetti. You are free to pick and choose which one you want to try or better still tryout the two methods.