Plates Moimoi with boiled Eggs

Name: Plates Moimoi with boiled Eggs
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 3 cups beans; Shombo peppers; 2 large boiled eggs; 2 cups water for the paste; 1 teaspoon salt; Half cup of crayfish; 3 Knorr cubes; 1/2 teaspoon chicken benny; I big size ginger; 2 big bulbs of onion; 3 cooking spoons of groundnut oil; 1 cooking spoon of groundnut oil for rubbing inside the plates; Carrots, green peppers, shombo for garnishing(optional); Steamed fish

Tonia Ugochukwu Bishop @LaBish_k

Nnewi, Anambra

Love making special Moimoi especially with eggs

Tonia Ugochukwu Bishop @LaBish_k

Nnewi, Anambra

Love making special Moimoi especially with eggs

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Ingredients

4 servings

3 cupsbeans
Shombo peppers
2large boiled eggs
2 cupswater for the paste
1 teaspoonsalt
Halfcup of crayfish
3Knorr cubes
1/2 teaspoonchicken benny
I big size ginger
2big bulbs of onion
3cooking spoons of groundnut oil
1cooking spoon of groundnut oil for rubbing inside the plates
Carrots, green peppers, shombo for garnishing(optional)
Steamed fish

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Steps

1

Wash your plates, leave to dry. Smear oil inside each plates and keep aside. Soak your beans for 10 mins. Wash and remove the chaff. Put it in a bowl, Add clean water, allow it to soak again for 1 hour. Drain off the water.
2

Wash your shombo peppers, onion, ginger. Add it to the already washed beans including your crayfish. Take it to the grinding machine or you can grind at home if your blender can grind it.
3

Add your Knorr cubes and chicken benny into the beans paste. Heat your groundnut oil under medium heat for 3 minutes. Add to the beans paste. Add the 2 cups of water. Stir with a wooden spoon for like 7 minutes until completely combined
4

Pour the paste into each plates that has been smeared with oil. Put 3 cups of water cooking pot. Bring to a boil. Drop each plate into the pot. Cover the plates. Also cover the pot. Cook under high heat but check the water inside the pot from time to time. Open the each plates after 10 minutes. Cut your eggs into 8 parts each. Garnish the top with sliced shombo, green peppers, fish and egg. Cook again until when tooth pick is inserted it comes out without the past sticking to it.
5

Bring out from the heat. Allow to cool for 3 minutes. Remove and serve with pap, rice, oats etc