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Bofrot

Name: Bofrot
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Ghana
Ingredients: 400g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 80g Sugar; 1/2 tsp Nutmeg; 1/2 tsp Salt; 300ml Water; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Nutmeg-scented dough fried into balls — the fluffy doughnut Ghanaians eat for breakfast and snacks.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bofrot (also called puff-puff) is a Ghanaian doughnut of yeasted dough fried into balls. Faintly scented with nutmeg, it's crisp outside and fluffy inside. Sold by the roadside for breakfast or a snack, it's classically eaten with hot chocolate or tea, and children love it on the way home from school.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Children coming home from school gather at a roadside stall, buying bofrot one by one with coins from a big bowl piled high.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 400g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Sugar 80g
Nutmeg 1/2 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 300ml
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and a little sugar in lukewarm water.
Mix the flour, remaining sugar, nutmeg, and salt, add the yeast mixture, and mix until smooth (a loose batter).
Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1.5 hours until doubled.
Drop balls of dough into 170°C oil, squeezing through your hand or using two spoons.
Fry about 5 minutes, rolling them, until golden all over.
Drain.

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