My friend Ryan described this as a revelation, "it's as though I've never eaten beans before".

From Natlicious Food.

Ingredients

• 1 cup dried black-eyed beans
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• vegetable oil
• 1 tsp garlic paste
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• 1/2 tsp turmeric paste
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 1 tsp chilli flakes
• 1 tsp curry powder
• 400mL coconut cream
• vegetable stock cube
• bunch of chopped parsley
• lemon or lime to serve

Method

You can soak the dried beans in cold water overnight, but it's quicker to put them in a saucepan with 2.5L of cold water, bring to a boil and then turn off and soak for 4 hours before rinsing.

Grating the ginger, garlic and turmeric is easiest with a Japanese ceramic grater, a microplane, box grater or even finely mincing them will also work.

Heat the oil in a large saucepan, add the onions and fry until sweating and softened.

Stir through the pastes, oregano, chilli and curry powder and cook for a minute or two. Add the beans, stir through to coat with the onion and spices then mix through the coconut cream.

Cook for 10-15 minutes then stir through the parsley and season to taste. Serve with citrus.