How to Prepare Nigerian Bean Pie is the concern of this article and reading it to the end will avail you with the required knowledge.
How to Make Bean Pie
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Bean pie is an uncommon snack in Nigeria. It is a cousin to meat pie and fish pie, the ones we all know and love to enjoy.
Bean pie is basically a vegetable twist to the usual meat or fish pie, i.e., instead of using a fish mash base or meat base to fill in the pie, one uses bean salad. Vegetarians should give this a trial.
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To make bean pie, the following ingredients are needed
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For the dough:
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Flour
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Butter or baking fat
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Yeast (or baking powder if baking)
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Salt
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Sugar
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For the filling
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Nut Meg
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Garlic powder (optional)
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Ginger powder
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Egg (that is if you are baking)
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Warm water
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Oil for frying
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Butter
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Beans
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Small onion
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Crayfish
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Tomato
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Pepper
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Salt and seasoning
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How to Prepare Nigerian Bean Pie
Here are Guides on How to Prepare Nigerian Bean Pie:
- Mix your yeast in a small bowl of warm water and leave it to froth
- Pour your sifted multi-purpose flour into a large bowl.
- Add sugar, salt, and other optional dry ingredients based on your preference. Use very little sugar.
- Add melted butter to the flour mix. Mix it thoroughly until the dough is consistent.
- Pour the frothed yeast solution into the flour mix.
- Mix it till the dough becomes thick and stretchy.
- Cover the dough and leave it in a warm place for some time.
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How to make or prepare the filling for bean pie
- Boil beans until soft enough to be easily mashed with a spoon. You can do this while preparing the dough.
- Chop your pepper, tomato, and onions.
- Blend your garlic and ginger
- Blend the crayfish.
- Heat your butter or margarine on fire.
- Pour in your chopped pepper and tomato. Stir the content of the pan.
- Add your crayfish and another seasoning. Add your ginger and garlic.
- Let the mix cook for a short while. Make sure the pan simmers on low heat.
- Add your beans to the mix on fire. Stir and mash the beans until everything in the saucepan blends together.
- Taste to confirm that the seasoning is enough.
- Remove the saucepan from the fire.
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Go back to the dough
- Bring out the dough and roll it on a clean rolling board with a clean rolling pin. Sprinkle a little amount of flour on the board to stop the dough from sticking to the board.
- Using a meat pie cutter or the cover of a small pot, cut out round shapes from the dough. Remove excess dough that cannot give you the desired shape and size.
- Scoop up some filling onto one part of each round-shaped dough. Make sure the filling is not too much so that you can close it up neatly.
- Gently lift the empty or free part to cover up the filled part. Use a fork to blend the edges neatly.
- If you want to fry your pie, set up a pan of oil on fire. Fry the pies on medium heat and gently turn the pies at intervals to obtain consistent frying. Remove the pies when they turn golden brown.
- If you are baking your pies, grease your baking pan with butter and gently place your pies in. rub some whisked egg on each pie and bake them in a preheated oven.
Serve your bean pie hot.