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Kanya

Name: Kanya
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Sierra Leone
Ingredients: 200g (unsalted) Peanuts; 100g Rice flour; 80g Sugar; A pinch Salt

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐

Toasted peanuts, rice flour, and sugar pounded and pressed — an old-fashioned Sierra Leonean sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kanya is a traditional Sierra Leonean sweet: roasted peanuts are ground with toasted rice flour or dried cassava flour and sugar and pressed into a mold. Crumbly, sweet, and toasty, it's loved as a children's snack and market treat.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Freetown market stall, brown sweets pressed into squares are laid out, wrapped in paper, and sold to children.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

Peanuts 200g (unsalted)
Rice flour 100g
Sugar 80g
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast the peanuts and remove the skins.
Toast the rice flour in a frying pan until lightly colored.
Grind the peanuts, rice flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor until moist and holding together.
Press firmly into a mold.
Chill in the fridge 1 hour and cut into squares.

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