Puff Puff (food)

Puff Puff

Origin
Alternative name(s)	Bofrot, togbei
Place of origin	Nigeria
Details
Type	Doughnut
Main ingredient(s)	Flour, yeast, sugar, butter, water, eggs, vegetable oil

This article is about a Nigerian food. For the 2010 iPhone game, see Puff Puff (video game). For its use as a sexual phrase, see Puff Puff (sexual term).

Puff-puff is a traditional Nigerian food similar to a doughnut. There exists a similar version known as bofrot in Ghana. Puff-puffs are similar to the French Beignet and the Italian Zeppole. Puff-puffs are made of dough containing flour, yeast, sugar, butter, salt, water and eggs and deep fried in vegetable oil until golden brown. Variations can be made in the recipe by using baking powder in place of yeast but yeast is more common. After frying, puff puffs can be rolled in sugar. Like the French and Italian variants, puff-puffs can be rolled in any spices/flavouring such as cinnamon, vanilla and nutmeg and for a fusion style of cooking puff-puffs served with a fruit dip such as strawberry or raspberry.

See also

• Beignet
• Chin-Chin
• Churro
• Gulab jamun
• Jalebi
• Kuli-Kuli
• Loukoumades
• Nigerian cuisine
• Tulumba
• Zeppole

References

• Akubor, Peter (April 2004). "Protein contents, physical and sensory properties of African snack foods (cake, chin-chin and puff-puff) prepared from cowpea-wheat flour blends". International Journal of Food Science Technology 39 (4): 419. 
• Patent, Greg. A Baker's Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes from America's Rich Immigrant Heritage. 

External links

Recipes

• http://www.celtnet.org.uk/recipes/miscellaneous/fetch-recipe.php?rid=misc-puff-puff
• http://www.allnigerianrecipes.com/snacks/puff-puff.html
• http://www.avartsycooking.com/2011/02/nigerian-buns/