Guyanese Black Bean Cake

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 16
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 235.3
  • Total Fat: 10.3 g
  • Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
  • Sodium: 1.0 mg
  • Total Carbs: 31.8 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 1.3 g
  • Protein: 3.5 g

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Introduction

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Number of Servings: 16

Ingredients

    Filling:
    ½ pt black-eye peas
    4 tbsp cooking oil
    ¼ lb sugar

    First Dough:
    ½ lb flour
    4 tbsp cooking oil
    4 tbsp sugar

    Second Dough:
    ½ lb flour
    2 oz lard

Directions

Boil black-eye peas until soft and sift through and fine sieve. Strain through a muslin to get all the black-eye flour.

Fry the black-eye flour in four tablespoons oil adding four tablespoons sugar. Cook for about 20 minutes on slow heat until dry. Remove from heat and put to cool.

First Dough: Mix flour, oil, and sugar together with a little bit of water to make a bread dough.

Second Dough: Mix flour and lard together (do not add any water to this mixture).

Make 16 pieces out of each dough

Fill second dough into first dough. Roll and fold into a square.

Roll again and fill with black-eye.

Baste with egg or milk and bake 10 to 15 minutes in a 350F oven


Number of Servings: 16

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user BLUCRONA.