Fried plantain, sweet potato, orlehleh and gungo beans stew |
Happy Easter NCC readers! Christ is risen! Hope you've all enjoyed your Easter break so far. Today’s post is a Good
Friday feast. As a tradition in Sierra Leone, on Good Friday we tend to stay
away from cooking meat and instead make lots of tasty savoury treats with or
without fish.
I decided to make Gungo Beans Stew with
fish, Fried Plantain, Fried Sweet Potato and Beans Dumplings known as
“Orlehleh” or “Moi Moi” by Nigerians. Moi Moi is slighty different from the
Sierra Leone “Orlehleh” as other ingredients such as corned beef is added to
thicken the mixture before cooking and boiled egg is also added as garnish.
The “Orlehleh” mixtue can be made by using
readymade beans flour or using raw black-eyed beans. The beans will have to
be soaked in water overnight. This will help remove the skin/chaff and the
“black eye” from the beans easily. Next rub the beans with both hands
thoroughly to remove the skin/chaff and the “black eye” from the beans. Once
all the skin/chaff and the “black eye” have been removed, put the beans in a blender and blend to a smooth consistency. After the above steps, the mixture
is now ready to be mixed with other ingredients for the “Orlehleh”. Enjoy reading the rest of the
post. Aprons
on!
Ingredients |
Ingredients
- Pack of Gungo Beans
- Plantain
- Sweet Potato
- Black eye beans flour
- 6 dried bonga fish
- 1 tin of chopped tomato
- 6 medium size onions
- 4 scotch peppers
- Seasoning
- Oil
- Tomato puree
Cooking Instructions
Beans
Dumpling “Orlehleh”
1. Add two cups
beans flour into mixing bowl and add one cup of water and mix together until
you have a smooth consistency
2. Add to blender with one onion, two scotch peppers and one tin chopped
tomato, two maggie cube season, half a teaspoon of salt, 50ml olive or
vegetable oil and blend together.
3. Pour mixture into a mixing bowl. The mixture should be a slightly thick
consistency. If it is too runny add as much bean flour to thickening it up.
4. Peel and break 2 bonga fish into small pieces and add to the mixture and
mix together with a wooden
orlehleh mixture wrapped in banana leaves |
5. Wash and dry banana leaves or you
can use tin foil containers or small plastic bowls with covers as an
alternative.
6. Smear the banana leaves or
container with a bit of oil.
7. Scoop a ladle spoon full of the mixture
and pour into banana leaves or containers that you have at your disposal.
8. If using banana leaves wrap the
mixture, with the leaves left, right top and bottom and flip upside and put all
wrapped mixture or containers in plastic shopping bag bowl.
9. Take a sizable pot that will fit
all the wrapped mixture or container.
10. Layer the pot with foil. Pour a
kettle full of boiled water into the pot and then put the plastic bag into the
pot. Tie the bag loosely and cover the pot.
11. Leave the pot to steam in low
heat for 45-60 mins.
12. After 60 min open wrap or
container to see if the mixture has hardened up and has cooked.
Plantain
Steamed Orlehleh |
- Peel plantain and slice them side ways
- Deep fry the plantains until they are golden brown and put them aside
Sweet
Potato
- Peel sweet potato and slice them to a shape of your desire.
- Deep fry the sweet potato until they are golden brown and put them aside
Guno Beans Stew
1. Wash and bring to beans to boil
until soft approximately 1hr 30 min
2. Peel and slice onoins then blend one onion with 2 scotch peppers
3. Peel and break bonga fish into small pieces and put
aside.
4. Pour about 100ml of oil into hot
sauce pan and heat to cooking temperature.
5. Once oil is heated, fry sliced onions, chopped tomato and bonga fish together.
6. Add bits of blended pepper and onions into the stew whilst the above is
cooking.
7. Add season and salt for flavour
and 2 squeezes of tomato puree to give the stew colour.
8. Add boil beans to the pot with
fried stew. Mix together and turn the heat low.
9. Leave stew to cook for a further 15
minutes or until all the water from the stew has evaporated and you have a
really dry stew.
Fried plantain, sweet potato, orlehleh and gungo beans stew |
Voila! Dish is done!
WOW. Na so?
ReplyDeleteI so wish I could be home right about now :(
Looks AMAZING!