🇳🇬 How to Make Moi Moi

Craving Moi Moi? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Moi Moi at home, in about 1 hr + overnight soak, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 2 cups black-eyed peas, soaked and peeled
• 2 red bell peppers, 1 onion, 1 scotch bonnet
• ⅓ cup vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp ground crayfish
• 2 stock cubes, salt
• 3 boiled eggs, quartered
• banana leaves or ramekins

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Peel the beans as for akara — same rule, same 10 minutes.
2. Blend with the peppers and onion to a smooth, pourable batter. Unlike akara, here you want it loose enough to pour.
3. Beat in the oil, crayfish, crumbled stock cubes and salt. Taste it raw — it should be slightly over-seasoned, since steaming mutes it.
4. Pour into leaf parcels or greased ramekins, filling two-thirds. Tuck a piece of egg into each.
5. Steam over simmering water for 45–60 min. It is done when a knife comes out clean and the middle is set, not jiggly.
6. Rest 10 min before unwrapping or it collapses. Moi moi is the same batter as akara — steamed instead of fried, which tells you a lot about Nigerian cooking.