Fancy Terrine Of Black-eyed Peas (nigerian)

Total Time: 24 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 24 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 cups dried black-eyed peas, soaked overnight and skinned
• 1 onion, coarsely chopped
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 1 teaspoon ground red pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup peanut oil
• 1 tablespoon maggi seasoning, sauce (or daddawa)
• 1 teaspoon curry powder
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1/2 green bell pepper, chopped
• 3 hardboiled egg, peeled and sliced
• 1/2 lb shrimp, cooked and peeled
• 1 cup cooked meat, diced (such as chicken, ham, sausage or corned beef)

Recipe

• 1 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.
• 2 preheat oven to 375°f.
• 3 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.
• 4 stir in oil, maggi sauce and curry powder.
• 5 combine chopped onions and green peppers in a small bowl.
• 6 grease a 9-inch loaf pan.
• 7 pour 1 ½ cups of pea puree into the pan.
• 8 layer half of the shrimp and half of the onion/pepper mixture.
• 9 spread 1 more cup of pea puree into pan.
• 10 layer hardboiled egg slices over this. spread chopped meat on top of egg slices.
• 11 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.
• 12 cover with foil and bake 1 hour.
• 13 remove foil and bake an additional 15 minutes until the top is browned.
• 14 cool in pan 20 minutes before turning out onto rack.