Flaky Nigeria chin chin recipe.... Made using self-raising flour

Best chin chin recipe, with a touch of class. I love love love chin chin, one of the best snack the kids and I look forward to. Chin chin is also a snack popular at African/Nigerians party, give this recipe a good try and you will be lucky you did. If health conscious you can bake them in the oven. 

Ingredients

500g Flour (I used self raising flour, but Plain flour can be used, 1/2 Tsp  can baking powder can be added to the plain flour for a similar effect)
120g Granulated sugar
1Tsp Cinnamon (grated)
65g Butter
1 Egg
85ml Milk
Oil for frying

Step 1. Get the ingredients together

Step 2. In a bowl add in the flour, cinnamon, sugar, egg and butter

Step 3. Then the milk

Step 4. Using your fingers or a dough mixer, combine the ingredients together

Step 5. Combine until it forms a ball, and keep the bowl almost clean. Allow it to rest for some few minutes.

Step 6. Once rested, dust your working surface with some flour, then roll out as thinly as possible.

Step 7. After roll, start cutting into small shapes of your choice

Step 8. Place your deep frying pan on the cooker with oil or switch on you deep  fat fryer, let the oil heat up. Once heated, add some of the chin chin dough to the oil (making sure their are well spaced).

Step 9. Start frying

Step 10. Once golden on all side, take the chin chin out. Allow the oil to drain by pour the chin chin on a kitchen tissue towel or leaving them in the deep fat fryer basket.

Finally its time to serve, with a bottle or can of chilled coke or any drink of your choice......

Nutella and crushed chilli chin chin... Baked chin chin meet deep fried chin chin

By now it should be obvious that Nutella is a regular feature in my home, they are a hit with the kids so don't be surprised by how I'm always quick to whip them out.

This was my first time making chinchin. I found tons of recipes online and it was getting a little confusing so I put on my bakers hat in deciding what would really work in achieving a crunchy deep fried or baked dough snack.

For those that don't know, chinchin is another popular West African snack consisting of a sweet or savory short dough cut into bits (some people are creative with the shapes) and deep fried. They are crunchy in texture. I'll be baking some too as I'm really on that path for oil reduction in my life!!!

RECIPE 

500grams flour
100grams sugar 
100grams butter (room temperature)
250ml wholemilk (liquid milk)
1teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon  
1 tablespoon Nutella (optional)
1/2 teaspoon crushed chilli (optional)
1litre of vegetable oil to fry or you can bake. 

METHOD

I Started by mixing most ingredients together with the exception of the cinnamon, chilli and Nutella. 

After mixing, I split the dough into two, added cinnamon to one half and the chilli/Nutella to the other to create my two variants.

I left the dough to rest for about 10mins. 
Then I added some flour to my work surface, rolled out the dough thinly and cut into little squares.
I then baked one half in the oven for 25mins at 150 electric oven Mark.

Then fried the others using a deep fryer for about 3mins. Once done, I placed the fried ones on a kitchen towel to drain off excess oil and cool.

Here are my finished products, don't they look just great?
I must say my house had the most divine smell and the taste was awesome.
I personally preferred the baked ones as they were crunchier and I didn't have to deal with the guilt of eating all that oil!!!