• Tag Archives: nigerian snacks

    Cinnamon Chin Chin

    Cinnamon Chin Chin for the Win For the past month on my blog, I have noticed in a surge in the search of chin chin recipes. The focus has been on soft chin chin for some reason. Luckily, I had the recipe already uploaded. Now that i am in the middle of my #12daysofChristmas series,

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    Cucumber Cups and Spicy Peanut Butter

    Cucumber Cups and Spicy Peanut Butter For my Nigerian followers, this appetizer is very reminiscent of the green garden eggs and groundnuts version we have. I chose to switch things up a bit with it and add a few spices to my peanut butter to make it more interesting. I incorporated african nutmeg otherwise known

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    Dambu Nama

    In this post, I have no interesting story as to why I decided to make Dambu Nama. I just had a craving for it and went into my kitchen and whipped this up. Did not take as much time as I thought it would which was good but I lacked a somewhat important tool in

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    Soft Chin Chin Recipe

    Did you know that our favourite West African snack is present in other cultures in the world? They may do it slightly differently but nonetheless the core of the recipe is the same as ours. Chin chin is also known as Merveilles means wonder in french. I do not blame the french for thinking these

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    Banana Oat Cookies

    I happen to be one of those people that buys groceries and uses only a pinch of it for most of the year. Given that I move houses ever so often, I end up giving a lot of these groceries when I’m moving to enable an easier transition. When I moved to San Francisco, i

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    Nigerian Buns

    Growing up I am not sure which one I preferred. Nigerian Buns or Puff Puff? I think at the time, I just kind of went with whatever was given to me. It was a treat so hey I was not complaining. If you have followed my blog for a while, you know pastries are not

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    Ojojo Recipe

    Hi Guys, So I was thinking of a recipe to put up, I wanted to put up one that I havent seen online yet, so I asked my Master Chef, my mum, and she told me about ojojo. You see I wont pretend that i have heard about this before but  was ready for the

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    Caramelized Coconut

    Candied Coconut – 9th Day of Christmas

    I don’t know about you but what comes to my mind during this festive period is the amount of candy, chocolate and food I can have. Growing up my mum always made this snack for my brothers and I and we loved it. It  brings back childhood memories and I believe this would make for a very

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    scotch egg nigerian recipe

    Scotch Egg Recipe

    A Scotch egg is also known as egg devil and it is made up of hard boiled egg that is wrapped around in sausage meat and coated with Flour or breadcrumbs and then deep fried. Did you know that scotch eggs are originally an English dish and this recipe was created by Fortnum & Mason of Piccadilly

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