🇸🇷 Surinamese Cuisine

Bruine Bonen met Rijst

Brown Beans with Rice

Prep Time 1 hour 30 min

Servings 4

Difficulty Easy

Calories 434 kcal

Slow-cooked brown beans in a savory tomato and onion sauce served over fluffy white rice, a quintessential Surinamese Creole comfort dish.

Ingredients

400g brown kidney beans, soaked overnight
300g long-grain rice
2 onions, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 tomatoes, diced
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 Madame Jeanette pepper, whole
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp cumin
Salt and pepper
500ml water

Instructions

1 Boil soaked beans in fresh water until tender, about one hour. Drain, reserving some cooking liquid.
2 Heat oil and saute onions and garlic until golden. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, and cumin. Cook until sauce thickens.
3 Add beans and enough reserved liquid to make a thick gravy. Add whole Madame Jeanette pepper. Simmer twenty minutes.
4 Cook rice separately in salted water until fluffy. Serve beans ladled generously over white rice.

Did You Know?

This dish is so common in Suriname that asking what is for dinner and hearing "bruine bonen" is as normal as hearing "rice and beans" in the Caribbean.