Rice
Atassi (Watché)

Atassi (Watché)

Benin

70Minutes
EasyLevel
5Serves
9Steps
About

Benin's everyday rice and cowpeas, also called watché, cooked together and stained warm orange with palm oil, sold on streets from Cotonou to Porto-Novo.

Equipment
  • Pot
  • Sieve
  • Wooden spoon
  • Knife
Ingredients
Rice2 cups
Cowpeas or black-eyed beans1 cup
Onion1
Red palm oil1/3 cup
Bay leaf2
Scotch bonnet1
Stock cube2
Saltto taste

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