Hello everyone my name is zeezee and am here to showcase a very easy and delicious delicacy prepared with beans in Nigeria. We can use beans in different ways. We can use it for what we call moimoi (beans pudding)
We can use it for Akara(beans cake)
Which i will showcase in my next post
We can just choose to boil it and eat it with fried plantain, Custard, oats, yams, garri,
Total time: 90 minutes.
1 kg of Mackerel
7 Cooked Eggs (optional)
Half cup of vegetable oil
3 seasoning cubes
Salt to taste.
1 cup of sliced onions
Tatashe or shobo (about 5 to 10, it add the reddish color)
Crayfish (1 cup)
3 cups of beans
Moi Moi Ingredients
What you find above are some ingredients for moi moi.
There is a special beans used for making beans pudding in Nigeria but you can substitute with any other type of beans if you live outside Nigeria.
You can use the cooked eggs or fish of any kind. You can even combine both as I have done in this moi moi recipe.
I simply parboiled the fish, removed the center bones and split into smaller pieces
Moi Moi Preparation
Step 1
Please add the beans into a bowl, sprinkle a handful of water and start squeezing with your hands.
This is the easiest way to wash beans; you would be through in 20 minutes.
Step 2
You can add a little more water but don’t allow it to soak; continue squeezing until it shades off the outer coat, you’d probably be doing this for about 3 minutes.
Step 3
When it seems like a good amount of the beans have shaded off their outer-coat, add enough water to fill the bowl. The outer coat would rise to the top, sieve and continue squeezing.
At some point there would be just very few that have not shaded off their outer coat, work on them and keep washing.
Step 4
Wash the beans to remove the outer coat, keep squeezing, washing and sieving till you are left with the white beans then you can prepare for the grinding part. Below is the video that shows you how to wash moi moi beans.
How To Peel (Wash) Beans Video
Most people spend their entire evening washing beans, here is how to do it in just 8 minutes.
There are people in Nigeria that render the service of grinding food stuff like moimoi and tomatoe in large quantity
Step 5
Split the red tatashe or shombo into two halves to remove the seeds at the center, this practice is necessary because the seeds add a bitter taste to moi moi. Wash and also pluck off the green stem at the top.
Step 6
Parboil the fresh /frozen fish, pick out from the water then pieces the fish with your fingers, not really squashing (leave in bits).
What I do at this point is to add all of them (beans, onions, crayfish and tatashe or shobo) in a small clean bowl.
You can use a smart blender for this if you have one, I used my semi-smart blender and it did a perfect job.
How To Make Moi Moi
Step 6
While still in the bowl, add the fish.
Step 7
Pour in the oil into the ground beans – half-cup (125ml), add 2 seasoning cubes, the fish water (fish stock) (which must not be over a half cup) salt to taste. Stir and taste the entire mixture
I can drop the egg on top after I have distributed the barter in cooking plates.
How to Cook beans Pudding
Step 8
Distribute in as many plates as possible, some people use wrappers for this purpose. After the distribution, you can drop into the cooking pot.
Step 9
If you are cooking with plates, you can drop the plates on top of each other but you must drop tiny logs of woods or pieces of clothes at the bottom of the pot to avoid burning the plate.
Some people use the stem of the moi moi wrapper, you don’t really need them if you would be careful.
Drop the plates in the pot, three or four per row.
Cooking beans pudding
Step 10
Add water simultaneously making sure it doesn’t top the first plate.
Then cover tightly and cook for about 40 to 60 minutes adding water at interval to avoid burning or too much water that would run into the plates.
I monitor closely this part because if you allow the pot to dry the plates would start melting especially if you are using plastic plates.
Note that plastic plates can cook for hours without melting or getting burned, the exception is when the pot is completely dried.
Step 11
You can bring out one of the plates after cooking for 40 minutes to check if it is done, check again after ten minutes, once it is done, allow to cool off for 30-60 minutes; then serve with pap (akamu), rice or custard
cooked moi moi
Nigerian (beans pudding) can also be served alone, I love it.