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Kuli-Kuli

Name: Kuli-Kuli
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Benin
Ingredients: 300g (unsalted) Peanuts; A pinch Chili powder; 1 piece Ginger; A pinch Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Ground peanuts pressed of their oil and fried crisp — a long-keeping snack of Benin and West Africa.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kuli-kuli is a West African snack: peanuts are roasted and ground, the oil is pressed out, and the remaining paste is shaped into small sticks or rings and fried. Crunchy and long-keeping, it's eaten with gari (cassava granules) or crushed and sprinkled over salads or as a spice for meat.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a market in northern Benin, little brown ring-shaped fried snacks are bagged and lined up as children buy them.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Peanuts 300g (unsalted)
Chili powder A pinch
Ginger 1 piece
Salt A pinch
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast the peanuts until fragrant and remove the skins.
Grind in a mortar or food processor until smooth and oily.
Wrap the paste in cloth and squeeze hard to remove the oil (it can be used for frying).
Mix in the grated ginger, chili, and salt and shape into small sticks or rings.
Fry in 160°C oil until crisp.

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