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!!!

Nutella and chilli flakes puff puff.. Nigeria puff puff just got a makeover

Nutella and chilli flakes puff puff covered in cinnamon sugar

Today was one of them days, I got fed up of eating the same old plain puff puff. I sat down thinking of how I could redefine it with something the kids would LOVE, going through my kitchen cabinets I spotted our jar of leftover #Nutella smiling back at me!!!Then it hit home!!!

I enjoyed making these and my kids enjoyed eating them.... bless them. 

Please note for this recipe self raising flour was used, compared to plain flour which would require up to 45mins or longer for the yeast to completely work its magic. 

When using self raising flour, you need not to wait long 10mins max is just fine.

Preparation/cooking time : 25Mins

Ingredients

270grams of self raising flour

2 Tablespoon nutella

7g fast active dry yeast

260ml cup of warm water

50grams granulated Sugar

Pinch of sea salt or normal salt

1 teaspoon of chilli flakes ( optional)

Procedure... 

Step 1.. Get all ingredients ready

Step 2..  Activate the yeast by pouring warm water into a cup,  then adding the yeast into the water

 Step 3.. Add in tablespoon of sugar

Step 5.. Stir and leave to froth for up to 5mins.  

Step 6.. Measure the flour into a clean bowl

Step 7.. Add in the salt

Step 8.. Add in the #nutella

 Step 9.. Then sugar

 Step 10.. And water

 Step 11... Then the froth yeast mix

Step 12.. Combine the ingredients with a wooden spatula

 Step 13.. Finally, the chilli flakes.... Note this option can be skipped.

Step 17.. Once properly combined, place in the microwave or any warm place... this helps the dough increase in size due to the active yeast . You can leave for as long as possible, but because its self raising flour 5mins - 10mins sitting time is fine

Step 18.. Heat up the deep fryer.. (a deep wok can also be used). Then gently start dropping in the batter in the hot oil.

 Step 19.. Once properly fried, gently take them out.. then place on a kitchen towel, so excess oil can drain off

Step 20.. The inside should look like this. Delightful!!!

Lastly serve!!!

*A side dip of nutella and some sprinkled chilli flakes can join the yummy party :)