One of the more popular street food in Nigeria, and found mostly on the streets of Lagos is Puff Puff. Puff puff is a simple round shaped pastry that is typically fried to make it puff up (I guess that's where the name came from).
When you want a quick,but filling snack, you can buy puff puff from a vendor on the streets. But if you want to make it yourself, then check out the easy to do recipe.
Ingredients:
1 cup of warm water
1 table spoon dry yeast
3 cups of flour
1/4 cup of sugar (1/3 cup if you want more sugar)
1 teaspoon vanilla flavour (optional)
1/2 teaspoon salt
Oil for frying
Put the yeast in Lukewarm water with a spoon of sugar until it foams (about 5mins).
Put flour in a bowl,
add the remaining sugar, the foamy yeast and water. Traditionally, flavour isn't added but I like to add to mine. Also if you are interested in making it spicy, this is the time to add some chilli pepper 🌶️. Add all and mix until well mixed and thick but not overly so but not watery to prevent it soaking up too much oil.
Close up tight and keep for atleast an hour in a warm place. I like to heat up the oven
for a minute and keep in there until it doubles in size.
Next, put your oil on the fire 🔥 for deep frying. You can use an ice cream scoop to scoop the dough into the oil, so you get exact sizes or you just use your hand like I do.
Flip after a minute on either side or until brown.
Note :that the heat should be at medium to low to prevent burning.
You can also dust off with some powdered sugar if you like.
For me, anything that can be fried can also be baked. So if you don't like to fry the bake on greased tray at low heat.
That's it. Bon Appetit
