Table for TwoHabichuelas con Dulce
A sweet, spiced Dominican dessert of creamy red beans with coconut milk, sweet potato and cinnamon, topped with little cookies.
Photo: Keesha's Kitchen / Unsplash
⏱ 60 min📶 Medium👫 Serves 2🥬 Vegetarian☪ Muslim-friendly
Ingredients (for 2)
- Red kidney beans, 400 g, canned and drained
- Coconut milk, 400 ml
- Evaporated milk, 200 ml
- Sweet potato, 1 small, diced
- Sugar, 80 g
- Cinnamon stick, 1
- Whole cloves, 4
- Raisins, 30 g
- Vanilla, 1 tsp
- Butter, 20 g
- Small butter cookies, to serve
Steps
- Blend the beans with 250 ml water until smooth, then strain into a pot.
- Add the coconut milk, cinnamon, cloves and sweet potato and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring often.
- Stir in the evaporated milk, sugar, raisins, butter and a pinch of salt.
- Simmer until creamy and the sweet potato is tender, then add the vanilla and remove the whole spices.
- Serve warm or chilled, topped with little cookies.
Cook it together: One of you blends and strains the beans, the other stirs the pot — taste-test the sweetness together.
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