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How To Cook Tender And Tasty Cowpeas

How To Cook Tender And Tasty Cowpeas

Cowpeas are packed with goodness and flavour. Learn how to release both into your dishes with just a few helpful tips.

Cooking Instructions:
Like any legume it is always best to wash and soak cowpeas before cooking. This will shorten the cooking time and result in a more tender cowpea. Cowpeas absorb flavour and become very tender when boiled – making boiling the principal method of preparing cowpeas.

How to cook tender and tasty cowpeas
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Recipe Instruction:

Rich in protein, cowpeas are an excellent source of vegetable protein and can easily be used as a substitute for meat in saucy dishes. Like all peas, cowpeas really come to life when cooked in a sauce.

Stir boiled cowpeas into a curry sauce and allow the peas to soak up all the flavour before serving. Boiled and dried cowpeas can even be ground into a flour and then used as a gluten free substitute for cake flour when baking!

Where can you buy it: Pick ‘n Pay (tinned and raw), Woolworths (raw).

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