- Preparation time
- 20 mins
- Cooking time
- 65 mins
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Serves
- 8 people
- Meal course
- Dinner
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- Posted on
- May 27, 2022
- 5 Cup
- Beans
- 2 Cup
- Groundnut oil
- 1 Cup
- Scotch bonnet pepper (ata rodo)
- 1 Cup
- Red bell pepper (tatashe)
- 230 Gram
- onions
- 1 Cup
- Crayfish
- 2 Tablespoon
- Seasoning (knowr powder)
- 2 Cup
- Hot water
Moi-moi also known as Moin-moin is a traditional Nigeria steam food made from peeled beans, pepper, onions. It can be eaten alone or serve with Garri, bread, pap, rice, cold pap (eko).
- Measure the beans
- Soak the beans with water for 2minutes
- Peel the beans to remove the skin
- Wash the pepper and add scotch bonnet pepper (ata rodo), red bell pepper and onions
- Then blend the beans, pepper and onion to a smooth paste
- Blend the crayfish and boil hot water, add the salt and the seasoning powder into the water
- Remove the bones from the fish, wash the fish with salt and water. Then Place a frying pan on the fire, add oil into the frying pan then add onion. Fry the onion until they are soft and translucent.
- Stir the blended beans with a wooden stick, add crayfish, fish and the hot groundnut oil and stir together
- Add seasoning powder and salt to taste and stir. Grease the Aluminum moimoi plate with groundnut oil for easy removal of the moimoi. Then put the beans paste in each of the grease plate
- Put little water inside a clean pot and place the aluminum plate in the water (steaming). Please ensure the water in the pot doesn’t reach half of the first Aluminum plate.
- Place the pot filled with moimoi on the fire, cover the pot and allow it to cook till
- Add little water at interval to prevent the moimoi from burning underneath. To check if the moimoi is well cooked put a knife or dowel rod through moimoi, the knife will come out clean if it is well cooked.
- Remove the moimoi from the pot and allow to cool before putting in a plate.
- Then serve
This is the exact method I use to make moi moi