Ingredients
·
250g
of Plain Flour
·
2
teaspoons of yeast (the one used in baking bread)
·
½
teaspoon ground nutmeg
·
Granulated
Sugar to taste
·
3
pinches of salt
·
Lukewarm
water (for mixing)
·
Vegetable
Oil (for frying)
Before
you make the Nigerian Puff Puff
If your yeast is the type that looks
like tiny pebbles or is like paste, mix it with lukewarm water and set aside.
you will add it later when you have added water to the Puff Puff mix. If your
yeast is in powder form, then add it when you add the other dry ingredients to
the flour (as mentioned below).
1.
Put
the floor in a bowl, add the ground nutmeg, powdered yeast, sugar and salt. Mix
all these together.
2.
Add
water in small quantities and mix everything by hand till you have a good blend
of all the ingredients. Add the yeast you mixed with lukewarm water if applicable. Use warm water to mix the puff puff
ingredients if you want it to rise faster.
3.
Keep
mixing till the batter is smooth but not too watery to flow from a spoon. The
mix should be much thicker than pancake
batter (see video below).
4.
Cover
the bowl with aluminum foil and make sure it is airtight by pressing the edges
of the bowl (see video).
5.
Leave
to rise for about 45 minutes. When OK to fry, the Puff Puff batter should have
risen in quantity and will have some air bubbles.
6.
Pour
some oil in a deep pot and allow to heat up. It's not advisable to use a deep
fryer for Puff Puff because of the netting but if you want to use it, set the
temperature to 170°C.
Note: The oil should be at least 3 inches
deep. This is so that the puff puff will become spherical when scooped into the
oil. You don't want to end up with flat Pancakes.
7.
Test that the oil is hot enough
by putting a drop of batter into the oil. If it sizzles and comes up to the
surface of the oil, then the oil is hot enough. If the oil is not hot enough,
the batter will go down to the bottom of the oil and stay there.
8.
When the oil is hot enough, scoop
some batter into the oil with your hand by pressing the batter to come out from
between your thumb and index finger. You should see the video for thisnicolescateringandrecipe.blogspot.comnicolescateringandrecipe.blogspot.com
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