How to cook Plantain Moi Moi (Ukpo Ogede)

Nigerian Plantain Recipes

Plantain is one Nigerian food you can never be bored with in the kitchen. It can be eaten unripe, ripe or over-ripe. It can also be fried, boiled/cooked or roasted/grilled. When fried, it is used as a major side dish for Nigerian rice recipes. You can also see fried plantain on the breakfast tables in most Nigerian homes.

How to cook Plantain Moi Moi (Ukpo Ogede)

One of the most displeasing things is to find that your staple food is going bad in the pantry. These hard times are definitely not when we want to be wasteful. But one staple food you will not be so disappointed to find that it is going bad is plantain. If you have been throwing away your over-ripe plantains, mmh. Today, you can go and sin no more because you are about to discover how that supposedly bad food can be used to prepare one of the most mouth watering recipes.
Ingredients
•    4 pcs of over-ripe plantain (Even if the skin is now black, so long as the inside is not decomposed)
•    Unripe plantain flour (1 Cigar cup) | 200g
•    Palm Oil (in the absence of this, vegetable oil)
•    Crayfish – A handful
•    Onions (1 medium bulb)
•    Pepper and Salt to taste
•    Seasoning – 2 Maggi / Knorr cubes
Before you cook Plantain Moi Moi
Put the unripe plantain flour in a bowl, add a small quantity of warm water and mix till a smooth paste is achieved.
Wash, peel and cut the over-ripe plantain into small pieces. Blend to a smooth paste and mix with the unripe plantain flour.
Blend the crayfish, onions and pepper.
Cooking Directions
1.    Mix all the blended ingredients in a big bowl.
2.    Add 3 cooking spoons of palm oil.
3.    Add the seasoning and salt to taste.
4.    Add more warm water to get a medium consistency if necessary.
5.    Scoop the mix into small bowls, aluminium foil bags or uma leaves, just as you would with the beans Moi Moi.
6.    Set in a pot with minimal quantity of boiling water and cook till done. Add water along the way if necessary.
Serve with Custard meal, oat meal or akamu (corn starch meal). It can also be eaten alone as a quick snack.

Source: www.allnigerianrecipes.com