Nigerian Cuisine - Snacks and Sweets

Snacks and Sweets

• Chin chin is a fried sweet cookie made from wheat flour and eggs and can be made in different shapes and sizes.
• Puff Puff, a fried Nigerian doughnut.
• Akara, similar to the Latin American dish acarajé, is a beignet from a dough based on black-eyed beans. It is sometimes served for breakfast.
• Alkaki, made from wheat and sugar paste
• Kuli-kuli, made from ground peanuts.
• Kokoro is a fried dry snack made from corn and garri (cassava). There are two different kinds.
• Meat pie is a D-shaped pie with beef, potatoes, and optional pepper fillings.
• Sausage roll, meat blanketed with flavored dough.
• Scotch egg
• Wara, soft cottage cheese made from fresh cow milk.
• Plantain chips
• Coconut candy
• Dundun, roasted or deep-fried slices of yam. It may be fried in palm oil or vegetable oil; water is added to soften the yam as it cooks. Dundun is usually eaten with a sauce made of groundnut or palm-oil, tomatoes, chilli peppers and seasoning.