puff puff
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Puff-puff is a traditional snack made of fried dough and eaten across Africa, especially in the west of the continent. The name "puff-puff" is from Nigeria; as listed below, many other names and varieties of the pastry exist.
Key facts
- Prepared food.name
- Puff-puff
- Prepared food.image
- File:Nigerian-puff-puff-recipe cropped.jpg
- Prepared food.image_size
- 200px
- Prepared food.place_of_origin
- Nigeria
- Prepared food.course
- Snack
- Prepared food.type
- Doughnut
- Prepared food.main_ingredient
- Flour, yeast, sugar, salt, butter, water, eggs, vegetable oil
- Prepared food.variations
- Boflot, kala, mikate, togbei, beignet dougoup
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Encyclopedic overview
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Puff-puff is a traditional snack made of fried dough and eaten across Africa, especially in the west of the continent. The name "puff-puff" is from Nigeria; as listed below, many other names and varieties of the pastry exist.
Puff-puffs are generally made of dough containing flour, yeast, sugar, butter, salt, water and eggs (which are optional), and deep-fried in vegetable oil to a golden-brown color. Baking powder can be used as a replacement for yeast, but yeast is a better option. After frying, puff-puffs can be rolled in sugar. Like the French beignet and the Italian zeppole, puff-puffs can be rolled in any spice or flavoring such as cinnamon, vanilla and nutmeg. They may be served with a fruit dip of strawberry or raspberry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “puff puff” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.