Recipe: at dinner Native moi moi (ekuru in Yoruba)

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Recipe: at dinner Native moi moi (ekuru in Yoruba) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Native moi moi (ekuru in Yoruba). Ekuru is a meal, native to the Yorubas in Nigeria. I actually call it "Nigerian style Kenkey", due to its slightly sour taste. It is prepared with peeled beans, just as moi moi, but contains little or no additional ingredients; just imagine white moi moi.

It is usually prepared with peeled beans.

It is similar to moin-moin as both are made from peeled black-eyed peas or, occasionally, cowpeas.

However, unlike moi-moi which is mixed with pepper and other ingredients before steaming, Ekuru is wrapped up in leaves or tin cans (similar to moi-moi) and steamed.

You can cook Native moi moi (ekuru in Yoruba) using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Native moi moi (ekuru in Yoruba)

  1. It’s of Beans.

  2. You need of Egg plant.

  3. You need of Atarodo.

  4. Prepare of Onions.

  5. It’s of Ewedu.

  6. You need of Red oil.

  7. You need of Knorr.

  8. You need of Nylon.

Ekuru also known as Ofuloju or White Moi Moi is a dish native to the Yorubas especially those from Kwara and Ondo.

It is made with peeled beans like the regular moi moi but instead of adding all your ingredients into the beans paste, a special sauce is made to eat it with.

It is usually eaten with Ata DinDin (Fried Sauce) or Eko Agidi.

Ekuru, also known as Ofuloju or White Moi Moi, is a dish from the Yoruba islands, especially those from Kwara and Ondo State in Western Nigeria.

Native moi moi (ekuru in Yoruba) step by step

  1. Pick the dirt from beans, pour it inside water, dont remove the shaft. Soak it for like and hour to make it soft..

  2. Blend it, use wooden Spatula and mix it very well. Add pinch of salt and mix it again. Pour little by little into a nylon and cool for 45 minutes and its done..

  3. Wash the egg plant and cook for 20 minutes. Blend little atarodo and onions. Make it as a sauce with red oil. Bring down the eggplant and use cooking spoon to marsh..

  4. Blend the ewedu. Add the marsh eggplant and ewedu to the prepared sauce..

It is made of pea beans like ordinary me, but instead of adding all its ingredients to bean paste, a special sauce is prepared for its meal.

Ekuru is consumed with Ata DinDin (fried sauce) or Eko Agidi.

Locally called ekuru by the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria, it has the same preparation as moi-moi especially the common one made from the bean black-eyed peas.

This menu is served in naming ceremonies and traditional weddings in the South West of Nigeria.

Moi Moi or Moin-Moin is a Nigerian favorite steamed bean pudding.