Sauce Pois

Sauce Pois refers to Haitian pureed beans that served with rice or polenta. It is made of red, black, white beans or green peas or pigeon peas, scallions, garlic, parsley, thyme and salt to taste. The ingredients are cooked together until tender, half of the cooked beans are pureed and mixed with the whole beans and cook some more until the desired consistency. Sauce Pois is also known as Pois en Sauce. Sauce Pois is pronounced "sos pwa".