Recipe: at dinner Leaf moimoi

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Recipe: at dinner Leaf moimoi Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Leaf moimoi. Uma (Thaumatococcus Daniellii) leaf is the Moi Moi wrapper you should go for at all times. If you want your Moi Moi to cook even faster, this is the wrapper for you! How to cook Moi Moi with Leaves [Video] Preparation of the leaves.

It is commonly referred to as miraculous fruit, miraculous berry, serendipity berry and katamfe.

Moi moi leaves are a broad papery leaf, similar to banana leaves that are able to hold the blended beans while they cook.

I remember moi moi also being made in small tins as well, but the moin moin made in the leaves, locally called moi moi elewe, always tasted the best.

You can have Leaf moimoi using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Leaf moimoi

  1. You need 4 cups of Beans.

  2. Prepare 5 of Scotch bonnet.

  3. Prepare 1 of large onion.

  4. It’s of Maggi.

  5. Prepare of Salt.

  6. It’s of Leafs.

  7. It’s of Crayfish.

  8. It’s of Spices.

  9. It’s of Oil or palm oil or both.

Nigerians typically prefer this method of cooking moi moi because of the.

Moi moi leaves contain a sweet protein called thaumatin.

This would explain why moin moin steamed in leaves taste better than those made in anything else.; Each leaf grows individually on a stalk from the ground, rather than on a stalk with multiple leaves as one might expect.

Here is how to make plate moi moi that tastes like leaf moi, I had to make the moi moi using both broad moi moi leaves and moi moi plates.

Leaf moimoi step by step

  1. Soak beans and peel out the back,add onion and the scotch bonnet and Grind till fine paste.

  2. Use a little amount of water and wash the leafs.

  3. Add salt, maggi, oil, Crayfish and spices to ur beans batter and stir, boil water and pour into the batter and stir. Ur batter shouldnt be too watery nor thick.

  4. Now fold the leaf and pour in the beans paste or batter into the leaf and arrange them into ur steamer, steam for about 25-30 mins and ur leaf moimoi is ready.

  5. Can be serve with pepper and oil, pap, vegetable soup, tea etc.

Plate moi moi here is moi moi made using bowls like the moi moi bowls sold at markets that have come to help those who have tried but can't really wrap in leaves.

Nigerians started making moi moi in plates (bowls) long ago but I never bothered even.

When moi moi plates are lined with leaves before adding the blended beans, the cooking has a way of making it taste like leaf moi moi.

I don't know how but it tastes just like it.

If you like moi moi cooked with leaves but cannot wrap, don't worry. or stress.