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Puff Puff

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Also known as Bofrot · Mikate

West African yeasted dough balls, scooped straight from a slack wet batter into hot oil, where they puff and brown into something crisp outside and stringy within.

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A bowl of golden brown puff puff dough balls dusted with sugar
Servings
Makes about 30
Prep
20 min
Cook
20 min
Total
2 h 10 min

Ingredients

  • plain flour500 g
  • dried yeast7 g
  • caster sugar100 g
  • water400 ml
  • salt½ tsp
  • ground nutmeg½ tsp
  • vegetable oil1 l
  • caster sugar (optional)50 g

Instructions

  1. 01

    Warm the until lukewarm (about 37°C, comfortable on a fingertip), then whisk in the and the 100 g of and leave for 5 minutes until it foams.

  2. 02

    Beat in the , and to a thick, sticky batter, much wetter than a dough — closer to a very thick pancake batter.

  3. 03

    Cover and leave somewhere warm for 1 to 2 hours, until the surface is domed and full of bubbles.

  4. 04

    Pour the into a deep, heavy pan to a depth of at least 5 cm, no more than a third full, and heat it to 170°C. Too hot and they brown before the middle cooks.

  5. 05

    Scoop up batter with a wet hand and squeeze a ball out between thumb and forefinger. Shake the drops off your hand first, since they make the spit, and drop each ball in close to the surface of the , letting it roll away from you. A wet spoon is safer and works nearly as well.

  6. 06

    Fry in batches of 8 to 10, for 4 to 5 minutes, turning them as they bob, until deep golden all over, letting the come back to 170°C between batches.

  7. 07

    Drain on kitchen paper and, if you like, roll in the 50 g of while still warm.

Notes

  • The batter must be slack. Stiff dough gives dense, bready balls rather than the light stringy crumb that defines puff puff.
  • Moderate oil, not hot. At 190°C you get raw centres in a dark shell every time.
  • Known by other names across West and Central Africa — bofrot in Ghana, mikate in the Congo — and made much the same way.

Nutrition per serving

Calories
410 kcal
Protein
6 g
Carbs
60 g
Fat
16 g

Estimated from the ingredients.

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