Puff-puff
| Subclass of | food, snack  |
|---|---|
| Get use | eating, nutrition |
| Continent | Africa |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Fabrication method | deep frying |
Puff-puff be a traditional snack dem make of fried dough wey dem dey chop am across Africa, especially insyd de west of de continent. De name "puff-puff" be from Nigeria; as dem list below, chaw oda names den varieties of de pastry dey exist.
Puff-puffs generally be made of dough wey dey contain flour, yeast, sugar, butter, salt, water den eggs (wich be optional), den deep-fried insyd vegetable oil to a golden-brown color. Baking powder fi be used as a replacement for yeast, buh yeast be a better option.[1] After frying, puff-puffs fi be rolled insyd sugar. Like de French beignet den de Italian zeppole, puff-puffs fi be rolled insyd any spice anaa flavoring such as cinnamon, vanilla den nutmeg. Dem fi be served plus a fruit dip of strawberry anaa raspberry.
Varieties den oda names
[edit | edit source]Insyd Francophone West Africa e be known as gato insyd Guinea den Mali (from de French gateau) den beignet insyd Senegal den Cameroon, as well as insyd The Gambia. A common Senegalese variety dey use millet flour rada dan wheat.[2] Cameroonians dey accompany beignets plus beans.[1]
Oda names give de dish dey include buffloaf (anaa bofrot) insyd Ghana, botokoin insyd Togo, bofloto insyd de Ivory Coast, mikate insyd Congo, micate anaa bolinho insyd Angola, fungasa insyd Chad, legemat insyd Sudan, kala insyd Liberia, den vetkoek, amagwinya, anaa magwinya insyd South Africa, Botswana den Zimbabwe, den burmasa insyd Burkina Faso. De prominence of dis dish dey stretch even to de southern den eastern edges of Africa, wer e mostly be known as mandazi.[3]
Dem dey find a similar dish insyd Tonga, wer e be known as keke‘isite (literally, yeast cake).[4] De recipe almost be identical to dat of puff-puff; however, e sam times be fried insyd shortening anaa drippings instead of vegetable oil.
References
[edit | edit source]- 1 2 "How To Make Puff Puff". Zikoko! (in American English). 2021-07-24. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
- ↑ "Beignets dougoub (beignets de mil soufflés)". Senecuisine. 10 May 2018. Archived from the original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
- ↑ "Nigerian Food Recipes TV| Nigerian Food blog, Nigerian Cuisine, Nigerian Food TV, African Food Blog: Nigerian Puff Puff Recipe : How to make Puff puff". Nigerianfoodtv.com. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
- ↑ "Keke 'Isite". The Coconet.tv. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
Read further
[edit | edit source]- Akubor, Peter (April 2004). "Protein contents, physical and sensory properties of African snack foods (cake, chin-chin and puff-puff) prepared from cowpea-wheat flour blends". International Journal of Food Science & Technology. 39 (4): 419. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2621.2004.00771.x.
- Patent, Greg. A Baker's Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes from America's Rich Immigrant Heritage.
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