Stewed Bambara Beans

The Ewe people are found in parts of Togo and Benin and especially in the Volta Region in Ghana. Stewed Bambara Beans is a simple, everyday kind of dish that the Ewe and other Ghanaians enjoy. It is called azinogoe bobɔ in Ewe, a version of “aboboe” in Twi and Ga. It is also known simply as stewed beans, boiled beans, or bobo.

The “beans” here are bambara beans or bambara groundnuts (Vigna subterranean) indigenous to West Africa. They lend themselves easi