Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, the best chinchin recipe. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The Best Chinchin Recipe is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. The Best Chinchin Recipe is something which I have loved my whole life.
This Nigerian chinchin recipe video will show you detailed steps of how to make perfect crunchy and tender chin chin even as a beginner. You want to solve some problems you run into with making the best Nigerian chinchin recipe every time? For example, my Nigerian chinchin gets dark golden.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook the best chinchin recipe using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make The Best Chinchin Recipe:
- Get 8 cups all-purpose flour (1 kg)
- Prepare 1 cup granulated sugar
- Take 1/2 cup unsalted butter/margarine
- Take 1 cup milk (or 4 tablespoon powdered milk)
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Prepare 2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1 tsp liquid milk flavour or 3 tbs of powdered milk flavour
- Prepare Oil for frying - I used vegetable oil
- Take Water - (1 cup plus 1/4 cup, if using powdered milk)
This recipe is a fine medium between the two. If you would prefer much harder chinchin, omit baking Chin chin keeps cooking with residual heat after you take it off the oil(for a while), so its best to remove it just a short time after it starts changing from the color. Chin Chin Recipe - Sweet crunchy deep-fried snacks made with flour, sugar, milk, butter, and aromatic spice powder like nutmeg or cinnamon. Chin chin is a very popular Nigerian snack and it also comes in a savory version too which is more popular in Ghana (a west African country).
Instructions to make The Best Chinchin Recipe:
- In a bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, a pinch of salt, freshly grated nutmeg, milk flavour if using the powdered one).
- Add the room temperature butter and mix till well until combined and the mixture has a crumblike texture.
- In another bowl, mix together the eggs and milk, add the egg mixture into the flour mixture and mix to form a dough (add some sprinkles of water if too dry and couldn't form together) then leave to rest for 10 minutes.
- Transfer the dough onto a floured working surface and lightly knead till smooth and no longer sticky.
- Cut out a portion of the dough (about the size of a golf ball). Roll the dough into about 1/8 inch thick.
- Cut into 1-inch squares or thin strips (about 1 by 5 inch) using either a knife, a pizza cutter or a pasta maker.
- Heat up oil (about 1-1/2 litres) in a frying pot or pan for 10 minute or till hot enough.
- Gently collect some batches of the raw chinchin an place in the hot oil. and start frying the chinchin in small batches. Start stirring immediately with a spoon, shaking from side to side till all the pieces of Chin Chin come apart.
- Keep stirring at intervals till the Chin Chin turns golden brown. When it browns to your liking, scoop into a sieve lined with a paper towel to drain the excess oil. Then fry the rest of the diced raw chin chin in batches
- Spread them out in a tray, allow to cool down completely and store in an airtight container, it can store for up to a month that is if you don't finish it on the first one week lol.
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