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Beans flour is made from beans which has been cleaned, peeled and milled to a fine flour. Used for the preparation of dishes such as moi-moi and akara.

Moimoi is a rich steamed beans cake eaten all over Nigeria and beyond. It is often served with ogi or custard, can be eaten with jolloff rice or on its own. It is truly a delicious combination with most meals. Rich in protein, it is the perfect weight loosing meal with good filling effect.

Also refereed to steamed beans pudding, or bean sponge cake, moimoi is made from soaked, peeled and blended brown beans. To this is added blended fresh pepper, onion, plus or minus tomatoes, and seasonings.

The brown beans is first soaked preferably overnight, the skin removed, and then blended.

These days, there is already prepared beans flour, meaning you do not have to spend so much time soaking your beans or blending it. This can be bought from any of our sales outlets in Australia.

Flaked fish, boiled eggs, prawns, crayfish, sardine in oil, or smoked fish could also be added to improve taste and richness.

The semi solid pudding formed is then scooped into a small cooking cup and brought to boil for about half an hour. Traditionally, moimoi is cooked wrapped in special moi moi leaves. Some have used a ordinary sandwich bags to cook their moi moi.

Moimoi preparation is largely the same all over Africa. This is a more or less Nigerian food, with Nigeria being the world’s largest consumers of black eye peas eaten in various preparations.