African Beans and Potatoes

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African Beans and Potatoes

(serves 8 easily)

 

..2 cups dried pinto beans

..3 large potatoes, peeled and chopped

..2 stalks celery, chopped

..salt to taste

..large sweet onion, sliced

 

Cook beans until tender. That's about 20 minutes in the pressure cooker

(what a marvel of technology!). Obviously, a lot longer if you don't have

one. You could use canned beans too, if you wanted to be quick about it.

 

Add potatoes and celery and cook until potatoes are tender. In the pressure

cooker that takes anywhere from 2-8 minutes, depending how finely you chop

the potatoes. I cut mine into large cubes and it took about 4 minutes (but I

live at 5500, so adjust accordingly).

 

Salt to taste.

 

Saute onion until browned. Mix in with beans and potatoes.

 

 

This is adapted from *The Africa News Cookbook.* It goes MUCH faster if you

have a pressure cooker. That's what I used and you can go from dried beans

to dinner table in about an hour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Language is an expression of thought. Everytime you speak, your mind is on

Parade

Mark 12: 30,31

 

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