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Frejon

Nigeria · Lagos

What we know so far

Frejon is the Good Friday dish of Lagos: black beans (ewa ibeji) boiled soft, blended smooth with coconut milk and cooked down to a thick, lightly sweet pudding, then eaten with fish stew, peppered snail and a sprinkle of garri Ijebu. It came to Lagos with the Aguda, the freed Afro-Brazilians who settled in the Brazilian Quarter in the 1800s and kept the Portuguese-Catholic custom of a meatless Friday. The name is from the Portuguese feijão, beans. Outside Holy Week you will rarely see it.

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Frejon

Nigeria · Lagos

What we know so far

The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 6 ingredients and 5 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

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