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Masa

Name: Masa
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Niger
Ingredients: 200g Rice flour; 100g Cooked rice; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 1 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Salt; 250ml Water; To taste Vegetable Oil

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Fermented rice batter cooked in a pan with small round wells — Niger's rice pancakes.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Masa is a Hausa dish: soaked rice is ground, fermented, and cooked in a special pan with many small wells. Crisp outside, fluffy inside, and faintly sour, it's eaten for breakfast with chili powder, sugar, or soup.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Nigerien roadside in the morning, plump little white pancakes are lifted from an iron pan lined with round wells.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rice flour 200g
Cooked rice 100g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt A pinch
Water 250ml
Vegetable Oil To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Blend the cooked rice and water until smooth.
Add the rice flour, yeast, sugar, and salt and mix.
Cover and let ferment in a warm place for 2 hours.
Heat a takoyaki pan, oil it, and pour in the batter.
When the bottoms are golden, turn and cook both sides.

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