Puff Puff is a popular Nigerian snack. Nigerian puff puff is deep fried similarly to doughnut and Ghanian bofrot. It is soft, spongy, fluffy, easy to make and requires just few ingredients.
It is usually eaten as starters or snacks. In Nigerian parties, you can almost be sure that puff puff will be served as small chops (appetizer). Infact, we eat it at anytime, anywhere..that's how much we Nigerians love this snack!
Nigerian Puff Puff Recipe
For this recipe, you will need Flour, Sugar, Salt, Nutmeg,Water and Sunflower or Vegetable oil. The totat cooking time is about 2hours 15 minutes. Find below my recipe for Nigerian puffpuff :
Preparation time:
Total time: 2 hours
INGREDIENTS
200g plain flour
70g sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
160ml lukewarm water
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
¼ teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
Sunflower oil for frying
How to make Puff Puff
In a mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt and nutmeg.
In a small bowl mix the water with a teaspoon of sugar, add the yeast and stir well. Leave it for 5-10minutes to activate.
At the end of the 10 minutes the yeast mixture should have foamed. If this doesn't happen, discard it and try again.
Pour the yeast mixture into the flour mixture and mix thoroughly.
Cover with cling film or towel and leave to rise for 90-120 minutes or till it doubles in size.
Pour oil into a deep pan. The oil should be atleast 3inches deep. Let the oil heat up and scoop the batter into the oil with your hand. You can also use ice cream scoop.
K's Cuisine tip: For best result of the round shape use hand to scoop.
Test the oil by dropping a bit of batter in it. If it rises up after few seconds then the oil is ready.
Flip the batter till it's golden brown. Place on kitchen towel to drain excess oil.
Best served warm.
Just look at that. So yummy
My current Perfect Puff Puff recipe can be found in my ebook Food O' Clock HERE
My current Perfect Puff Puff recipe can be found in my ebook Food O' Clock HERE
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Puff Puff (Nigerian Puff Puff recipe)
Ingredients
- 200 g Plain Flour
- 70 g Sugar
- ¼ tspn Nutmeg
- ¼ tspn Salt
- 1 tspn active dry yeast
- 160 ml Water
- Sunflower Oil
Instructions
- In a small bowl mix the water with a teaspoon of sugar, add the yeast and stir well. Leave it for 5-10minutes to activate.
- Pour the yeast mixture into the flour mixture and mix thoroughly.
- Cover with cling film or towel and leave to rise for 90-120 minutes or till it doubles in size.
- Pour oil into a deep pan. The oil should be atleast 3 inches deep. Let the oil heat up and scoop the batter into the oil with your hand. You can also use ice cream scoop.
- Flip the batter till it's golden brown. Place on kitchen towel to drain excess oil.
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This post was originally published February 2014, Republished with few recent pictures September 2019.
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It came out well because I normally use self-rising flour but I use the plain one . Thank you so much
I will try it tonight
Nice what about fish pie
This is indeed a fail proof recipe.
I was never satisfied with the outcome of my puff puff until I tried kcuisine’s puff puff recipe.
Give it a go and you will not be disappointed.
Thanks Sis 😘
Thank you for the great feedback:)
This has been really helpful. Very simple and nice
Pls am making my puff puff now but for d past 1h30ms it hasn't rise. Pls guild me. Itz urgent
After the first step, try putting in the oven on the lowest lowest temperature setting. Being in the uk, often our kitchens aren’t hot enough to allow the yeast to raise.
Thank you and I found it easy to make puff for everyone, they love it also I make puff everyday lol 😆.
How many does it make? It says it makes 5 servings, but how many of them do you consider a serving? Thank you
Thank you so much for the recipe it’s so clear & simple. I made my first puff puff today and it was a success!!!! I added vanilla essence to it. They are not all round but they taste good 🤗
I made my second puff puff and the test was wao
is it okay to double amount of ingredients in the recipe. Will it still come out the same
Yes, you can double the recipe.
i love the recipe i made it for every body and they love it it was my first time ever doing this looking forward to making it another time but i used instant yeast thanks anyway God bless you
Many thanks for the feedback Annabel.
I am yet to try it. and if it work out well for me, I will give you feedback
Wow! I made puff puff for the first time today! Hubby and kids couldn’t get enough of it! Thanks so much.
That's good to know NkTobis.Thank you for the feedback.
I tried earlier and the yeast did not activate so it did not come it well. Trying again
loved it so so much
Glad you love it. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks so much for the puff puff recipe. I made it
You're welcome Elizabeth.
Nice steps to follow
I’ll definitely try this out
Thank you. Let me know how it goes when you do.
First yeast mixture didnt activate. I'm trying again.1
How did it go?
Very nice , delicious.
It came out very well , I made it today, doubled the ingredients and didn’t finish it eventually, do you think it will keep if I store the rest of the batter in the refrigerator, and make the rest tomorrow? I’m not sure it’s okay to leave outside the refrigerator.
What do you advice?
Please let me know.
Good day am fatai ayuba, pls how can i prepear pufpuf
Your recipes are easy to follow. The puff and meat pie came out fine
Thank you.
Glad to know you nailed both recipes. Thanks for the feedback Nonso.
My puff puff came out nice,my children love it,and they want puff everyday thank n God bless
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That's good to know. You're welcome and thank you for the feedback 🙂
I forgot to activate my yeast with sugar,I only used d warm water without adding sugar and I mixed,will it come out bad?
If the yeast activates it's fine.
Recipe was easy to follow and my puff puff came out perfect. Thank you!
making this tomorrow night to use tuesday morning
I dont really like oily snack. I would like to know if your method of cooking/frying the puff puff and beans cake does not make them oily..
Hello Sola, no it doesnt make them oily
Thanks dear
thanks for dis
You're welcome Adeoba 🙂
Just tried it and it looks like it will turn out well.
Hi, thank you for sharing this recipe.Puff Puff came out brilliant I feel like a pro. My boys loved it and want it everyday. God Bless
You're welcome Feyi. lol at ur boys wanting it everyday oh dear...God bless u too and thanks for the feedback????