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Bean cakes

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 400 grams black-eyed beans
  • 1/2 small onion
  • 2 small carrots
  • 1 egg
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Wheat flour
  • Groundnut or vegetable oil

Directions

  1. Drain the black-eyed beans.
  2. Chop the onion and carrots and mix in a blender with the black-eyed beans and egg. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  3. Take the mixture out of the blender and shape into balls. Then press into flat round shapes, about 2 centimeters deep.
  4. Shallow fry in groundnut oil (or vegetable oil) for about eight to ten minutes, turning occasionally.