Prepare time: 30 min
Cook: 20 min
Ready in: 50 min
Chin-Chin
Chin Chin is a very popular crunchy deep fried snacks in Nigeria. Its made primarily from flour, sugar, milk and butter. Its also a big party favorite, usually served as appetizer. Chin Chin can be either hard or crunchy. In Ghana it is called Achomo.
Ingredients
- Flour
- Milk or Water
- Butter or Margarine
- Eggs
- Vegetable Oil
- Baking Powder
- Sugar
- Flavour Essence, Vanilla
- Ground Nutmeg
- Salt
Tools You Will Need
- Rolling Pin (You can use big bottle tho)
- Clean board or smooth flat surface
- Frying pan
- Sharp knife
Directions
- Pour the flour in a big bowl, add baking powder, sugar. Mix well and then add the butter/margarine. Mix thoroughly with your hands until it looks like fine bread crumbs.
- If you will be using eggs, beat the eggs and set aside.
- Add your whisked eggs and mix together.
- Gently pour in the milk with the Essence and work into it bring it all together thereby forming pliable dough.
- Put flour on your clean board and place the chunk of the dough and roll out.
- Cut the dough into any shape you want and place the cut outs into a bowl, knead and repeat the process till the whole dough is used up.
- Place the pan with vegetable oil on the cooker to heat up the oil.
- Fry the chin chin dough in batches, make sure u don’t crowd the pan.
- Make sure the chin chin is done, once it turns golden brown, transfer into a sieve or paper towel and leave to cool at room temperature.