Moi Moi
Print recipe| Serves | 5 |
| Prep time | 1 hour |
| Cook time | 1 hour |
| Total time | 2 hours |
| Meal type | Main Dish, Side Dish |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable, Pre-preparable, Serve Hot |
| Region | Nigerian |
Ingredients
- 320g beans
- 80g shombo/cayenne pepper (blended)
- 180g onion bulb/large (blended)
- 3 Large dried bonga fish (skinned and deboned)
- 150g dried red prawns
- 100ml vegetable oil
- 3 Large egg (hard boiled)
- seasoning
- salt
- 23 pieces plantain leaves
Note
you do not need to soak your beans for too long in water before scrubing off skin. 4-5minutes of soaking is okay because the longer you soak the harder it gets you to scrub the beans. And also the beans ferments when left in water for too long.
After blending as well be sure not to leave the beans standing for too long before mixing and cooking.
Directions
| Step 1 | |
 submerge the beans in room temperature water and leave for 5minutes. then squeeze in-between your palms to wash and remove the outer skin of the beans do this continuously until all traces of the skin has being removed and drain out skin with a sieve. | |
| Step 2 | |
 add the fresh peppers and onion to the washed beans | |
| Step 3 | |
 the blended paste should be very smooth and thick and should look like this | |
| Step 4 | |
 boil the dried red prawn and dried bonga fish in very little water with little seasoning and salt until very little stock is left and the bonga is tender enough | |
| Step 5 | |
 sieve out the little stock and set aside | |
| Step 6 | |
 place a small pot on the fire and add the vegetable oil and allow to heat up then add few onion bulb pieces. Allow the onion bulb fry for 30-40 seconds. | |
| Step 7 | |
 pour the hot vegetable oil into the beans mix while stirring to mix well (you can remove the fried onion before or after adding to the beans) | |
| Step 8 | |
 add the bonga fish and prawn sauce you sieved out and stir well | |
| Step 9 | |
 taste for seasoning and add if needed and mix properly. you can add little warm water if the beans mixture is still very thick.( the mixture should not be too runny or too thick). | |
| Step 10 | |
 prepare your plantain leaves and wrap the beans mix and place in a pot lined with plantain leaves. you can check out my tutorial on wrapping moi moi in plantain leaves | |
| Step 11 | |
 add boiling water to pot | |
| Step 12 | |
 cover with plantain leaves | |
| Step 13 | |
 cover pot lid and leave to boil for 45-50minutes (ensure the steam is trapped in as its the steam that sets the moi moi) | |
| Step 14 | |
 after 5minutes turn off heat and drain left over water if any. | |
