detruth:

I speak not as a specialist, nevertheless, let me borrow from some experience I got watching my mum cooked the dish while at home.
Just the way you prepare the beans for akara by soaking, removing the skin and grinding, so also you start its preparation.
The only differrence is that you add nothing to it before grinding/blending. You grind the beans alone, while now leave you with whitish matter.
This matter is now stirred thoroughly in order to allow pulping (this I will tell you later)
After the matter is light enough (the volume increases with stiring) after stiring, it is now wrapped in leaves and steamed just the way you do to moinmoin. (please enough no salt is added at any of this stage). The steaming does'nt last as long as moinmoin, only ensure that water is added at intervals to avoid burnt sacrifice! Steaming time is between 30 to 40 minutes. This is Ekuru!

What gives taste to Ekuru is the stew that is served along with it. After unwapping it, the stew is normally poured on it head.
The fried stew is done with pepper, crayfish, seasoning, flavours and lots of sliced onions. Very important! Please use palm oil and not vegetable oil.

You don't eat Ekuru the way you eat moinmoin. After pouring the stew on the prepared Ekuru, you them mash it into pulp using your hand. The pulp will easily mash if you really stired it well in the beginning during preparation. While you mash on ground, you now add salt to taste. Salt is also avoided in the beginning to help aid mashing.

Companions:
Ekuru (a local dish among Yourbas) is locally taken with solid pap (eko). So also when little bolied okro is added (on ground) to it, some part of Yorubas also take it with eba "garri".

This is the little I know about Ekuru. I hope I make a little sense to someone out there.

O.M.G!!! You are the best!! You rock!! Thank you so much

*Hauwa*:

it is a crunchy stuff right? has a little sour taste?

LOL!! Far from it!

I try and add pictures as soon I can lay my hand on one.

Lol! I'd like that. Thanks

sounds gross

KarmaMod:

sounds gross

ofcourse, you've been americanized

RubyPearl:

ofcourse, you've been americanized

detruth:

detruth, wey my pix?

@Ebony-Silk:i didn't know ekuru was eaten with okro or eko,what i eat it with pepper sauce fried with palm-oil.

bettes:

@Ebony-Silk:i didn't know ekuru was eaten with okro or eko,what i eat it with pepper sauce fried with palm-oil.

Omo, you're missing a LOT!!!!!!!!!! I tried it with pepersoup fried with palm oil AND okro soup. OMG!!!!!!! My belly is wiggling from thinking about it.
You should try it with both

oh who just named eko? am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hungry of eko with okro soup, and soooooooooooooooooooooo hungry of eko with real ewa

ebi sha wa ni bi yi o. can't eat what you want

*Hauwa*:

oh who just named eko? am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hungry of eko with okro soup, and soooooooooooooooooooooo hungry of eko with real ewa

ebi sha wa ni bi yi o. can't eat what you want

Omoge, you sure you're ok?

Eko is not ekuru

i know but bettes named eko in her post. . .as i was reading it, inu mi se ma pariwo

very ok my dear just hungry of eko ati ewa

the best to eat it with is the fried peppery sauce with diced fried onions, not had it in ages though cause we normally get to when we visit d h/town,

what a question - su ck it thru your fu cking butt hole.

*Hauwa*:

i know but bettes named eko in her postas i was reading it, inu mi se ma pariwo

very ok my dear just hungry of eko ati ewa

hehehe, that's what I had last week o. ewa mixed with riped sweet plantain plus eko
Cooked the eko first. placed it in the fridge for a few hours, then cooked my beans and enjoyed

lucabrasi:

the best to eat it with is the fried peppery sauce with diced fried onions, not had it in ages though cause we normally get to when we visit d h/town,

lol, you're missing a lot

game_rod:

what a question - su ck it through your fu cking butt hole.

Thank you, plz dnt come again

i know how to make it. . .my mom used to make it back home and i can make it too.
how did you get the stuff to make your eko?

*Hauwa*:


i know how to make itmy mom used to make it back home and i can make it too.
how did you get the stuff to make your eko?

Nigerian rest. plenty. . . . and if I can't find any powder eko, I ask my mom to send me some

You may add all sorts of things to the pepper sauce,including seafood, if you prefer. Some like it with okro,others without. It's very nutritious food.

What's Ekuru?

Moyola:

What's Ekuru?

I thought it was corn moinmoin but after going through this thread, I seem to recollect faintly that there's a bean dish called ekuru. But i dont understand how its different from moinmoin. Maybe its made without oil or something like that.

oh goodness gracious!!! nothing beat fresh corn moimoi.

am sooooooooooooooooooooo hungry of CORN MOI MOI

someone please help Tpia, you woke up my hunger o. i dey your domot dey wait for corn moimoi

Ebony-Silk:

detruth, wey my pix?

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Sorry Ebony! I have been quite busy for sometimes now.
Nevertheless, I planned making the dish for Christmas.
Expect the pix as my liitle gift in few days time.
Merry Christmas!

tpia:

I thought it was corn moinmoin but after going through this thread, I seem to recollect faintly that there's a bean dish called ekuru. But i don't understand how its different from moinmoin. Maybe its made without oil or something like that.

ekuru is white and almost tasteless, that's why it's eaten with fried pepper soup or okro soup or palm oil.

And it's texture is wayyyyyyyyyyyy diff from moin moin.

*Hauwa*:

oh goodness gracious!!! nothing beat fresh corn moimoi.

am sooooooooooooooooooooo hungry of CORN MOI MOI

someone please help Tpia, you woke up my hunger o. i dey your domot dey wait for corn moimoi

lol, ole, stand up and go to the kitchen and cook moin moin. easy to make

detruth:

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Sorry Ebony! I have been quite busy for sometimes now.
Nevertheless, I planned making the dish for Christmas.
Expect the pix as my liitle gift in few days time.
Merry Christmas!

Thank you gan. Aku odun, merry keresimesi

Detruth is  right.

Eko and Aroo(thats another kind of Ekuru) with atadindin.

Corn moin moin is called Sapala.LOL

yes very easy to make but i like the native way my mom does it. real fresh corn blend/beaten in mortar (not engine ) then add the orishirishi wrap in native leaf

i don't have mortar here and i can't find a good corn (the corn here are for 3months old baby tooth) so you can as well beat/grind the cob.

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tpia, trust me, you'll loveeeeee it.
If you can, try it with pepper sauce AND okro. way better

they dont sell ekuru in Lagos o
ive never seen it. I know akara sha

do we have to go to ekiti to buy ekuru?

tkb417:

they don't sell ekuru in Lagos o
ive never seen it. I know akara sha

do we have to go to ekiti to buy ekuru?

real question is, do you have to buy it? Stop being lazy and make it

Follow the site that tpia gave, it has the recipe.

I still can't believe you ppl have never heard of EKURU. oga o

Ebony, i need wrapping ewe nla for my Ekuru o.

where can i get a banana leaf? mexico is too far

*Hauwa*:

Ebony, i need wrapping ewe nla for my Ekuru o.

where can i get a banana leaf? mexico is too far

rotflmao. . . . I don't use banana leaf, I use plastic foil from Walmart. Or u can use aluminium foil