Fancy Terrine Of Black Eyed Peas Nigerian Food

FANCY TERRINE OF BLACK-EYED PEAS (NIGERIAN)

Steps:

• Soak black-eyed peas overnight. Drain. Remove skins by rubbing the peas together in water and letting the skins float to the top, then drain again and discard skins.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Combine soaked skinned black eyed peas with onion, tomato paste, red pepper and salt in a food processor or blender and process until completely smooth. *Add 4-6 tbsp of water if necessary. You should not feel any lumps when you rub mixture between your fingers.
• Stir in oil, Maggi sauce and curry powder.
• Combine chopped onions and green peppers in a small bowl.
• Grease a 9-inch loaf pan.
• Pour 1 ½ cups of pea puree into the pan.
• Layer half of the shrimp and half of the onion/pepper mixture.
• Spread 1 more cup of pea puree into pan.
• Layer hardboiled egg slices over this. Spread chopped meat on top of egg slices.
• Spread 1 more cup of puree over meat. Add remaining shrimp, and then the remaining onion/pepper mixture. Spread the rest of the puree on top.
• Cover with foil and bake 1 hour.
• Remove foil and bake an additional 15 minutes until the top is browned.
• Cool in pan 20 minutes before turning out onto rack.