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Kitchen Gadget Tricks

How to stir bean paste with mixers

After blending beans, either for moin moin or for Akara, you need to stir the beans for a considerable period of time to whip in air into the mixture to ensure fluffiness. Now, this stirring is done manually using the omorogun and it could take ages and ages. Save yourself the trouble using kitchen gadget technology, in one of two ways, depending on the volume you have.

Stand mixer

Continuing, the conversation between Big Oladunni and Small Oladunni Me: So, once I have the beans paste, I should whip air into it, right. Big Dunni: oh yes, use the omorogun and stir in circular motions in one direction, but you already know that now. Me: ah yes, I just wanted to be sure, because Akara Osu is slightly denser than regular Akara Big Dunni: yes it is, but it is light at the same time, so you have to find a balance, because you don't want to be eating Buns Me: okay mummy, nodding my head. I didn't even bother arguing. Omorogun ko, I love you Mummy, but little does she know about the #deathtoOmorugun hashtag 7 minutes in a mixer, I am about to make the fluffiest Akara Osu in history ???. Machine peeled the beans, blended the beans and whisked air into it. #zeroeffort #theNewNigerianCookery #aintnobodygottimeforkitchenslavery. Beht, see the texture of that paste now, looks like buttercream ???

A video posted by Dooney's Kitchen.com (@dooneyskitchen) on Aug 10, 2015 at 10:42am PDT

Hand mixer

Hand mixing bean batter. You still do your by hand ????. If you want to know if your batter is light and fluffy enough, to the float test. Drop the batter into a cup of water. If it floats, you are good to go

A video posted by Dooney's Kitchen.com (@dooneyskitchen) on Aug 29, 2015 at 3:00pm PDT

Remember my post with the hand mixer for Akara? I do the same for moin moin too. For a smaller batch of moin moin, to save on washing up, I'll just let the blender run for a while, but today's batch would take too many runs in a blender and I have too much to do, so stand mixer it is. It will even do a better job and the moin moin will be light and fluffy. Thank goodness for splash guards. Those engineers at #Kenwood know what they are doing. All hail #thenewNigerianCookery. #KenwoodChef #KenwoodChefPremier

A video posted by Dooney's Kitchen.com (@dooneyskitchen) on May 23, 2015 at 2:33am PDT

Watch my #kenwood go. Blending beans for Moin Moin. Smooth to perfection

A video posted by Dooney's Kitchen.com (@dooneyskitchen) on May 23, 2015 at 2:26am PDT

See the batter after the "magic" of the hand mixer? It took what, less than 5 minutes. See how light it is, like cake batter, volume also doubled. #deathtoomorogun. Fluffy Akara loading.

A video posted by Dooney's Kitchen.com (@dooneyskitchen) on Apr 4, 2015 at 2:39am PDT

So, you still use the wooden spoon to incorporate air into your bean batter for Akara. Come, let me give you a hug ???. I hated doing this for my grandmother, she would tell you to stir and stir till the mixture doubled in volume. Ain't nobody got time for that. Use a hand mixer, stat. #deathtoomorogun #theNewNigerianCookery. You can also use a hand mixer to make Amala, Fufu, Semo and any soup staple you need to stir in a pot on the stove ???. Akara for brekkie. Comfort food in Kemi's house. The ultimate in laziness is to pour it in a stand mixer and walk away. Tee hee ???. If I was home, stand mixer straight ???. Will be watching TV while it does the work. Such a blessing to be born in this era

A video posted by Dooney's Kitchen.com (@dooneyskitchen) on Apr 4, 2015 at 2:25am PDT


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Dooney is the blogger, recipe developer and photographer for Dooney's Kitchen. I spend my days trying to figure out creative ways to redefine Nigerian food, either by creating a new dish itself using ingredients in ways that have never been used before, or changing the approach to Nigerian cooking using kitchen gadgets.

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