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Dakuwa

Name: Dakuwa
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Niger
Ingredients: 200g Peanuts; 50g Precooked Corn Flour; 80g Sugar; 1/2 knob Ginger; A pinch Red Chili Pepper; A pinch Salt

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Roasted peanuts and grain flour pressed together with sugar and ginger — a Nigerien sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Dakuwa is a Hausa sweet: roasted peanuts and grain flour are ground together with sugar, ginger, and a little chili and shaped into balls or bars. It keeps well, is sold at markets and by the roadside, and is a children's snack.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Nigerien market, round peanut sweets are lined up in a small basket as children buy them with coins.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Peanuts 200g
Precooked Corn Flour 50g
Sugar 80g
Ginger 1/2 knob
Red Chili Pepper A pinch
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast the maize meal in a frying pan until golden and fragrant.
Toast the peanuts and grind finely in a blender.
Blend all the ingredients until moist and holding together.
Roll by hand into balls about 3cm across.
Let stand about 1 hour to firm up.

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