Recipe: Yummy Leaf moimoi

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Recipe: Yummy Leaf moimoi Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Leaf moimoi. For the benefit of our friends who can't prepare moi moi yet here's a detailed recipe and ingredient list on how to make moi moi. 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!

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

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.

You can cook Leaf moimoi using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Leaf moimoi

  1. It’s of Beans.

  2. You need of Scotch bonnet.

  3. Prepare of large onion.

  4. You need of Maggi.

  5. It’s of Salt.

  6. You need of Leafs.

  7. You need of Crayfish.

  8. You need of Spices.

  9. You need of Oil or palm oil or both.

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.

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

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.

Moi Moi, also pronounced as Moin Moin, Moyin Moyin, Moy Moy or Mai Mai is a traditional Nigerian food made with steamed ground beans and enriched with spices.

It is very common to see Moi Moi (Moin Moin) served at parties, wedding ceremonies and other festive occasions.

Moi Moi (Moin Moin) is usually eaten alone as a meal , but most times it is served with other Nigerian foods such as Pap(Ogi.