For The Love Of Food: [Photos] How To Make Crunchy Chin Chin

Chin chin is a nationally acclaimed favorite snack in Nigeria and you don't always have to eat store bought chin chin, you can make your's at home and make it as rich as you like. Here is a recipe for nice and crunchy chin chin, step by step with photos. You can alter the igredients for softer chin chin if you like.

Ingredients

1. 1kg of white flour (tip, you can use wheat flour if if you want to avoid white flour, but you will have to be careful with adding water).
2. 125g of margarine (use 250g for soft chin chin)
3. 200g of granulated sugar.
4. 75g of powdered milk.
5. 4 large eggs
6. 2 medium sized nutmegs/1 tablespoon nutmeg powder
7. Milk flavour (optional)
8. Vegetable oil.

Making The Dough

Put all the dry igredients into a large bowl (make sure you sieve your flour), add the margarine and rub it into the flour thoroughly till you can't feel any lumps of butter. Add in the whisked eggs and water and knead till you have a firm and smooth dough. The dough has to be firm enough to be rolled.

Rolling and cutting the dough

Get a flat surface or use a rolling/cutting board and rolling pin to flatten your dough. Once it is flat, you can cut into any shape you want, either the regular dice shapes or using a dough cutter if you are making large quantity.

Flattening the dough

Cut into diced pieces with a knife

Or use a dough cutter for making large quantity:

Feeding in the pieces into the cutter...

Deep fry the cut pieces in pre-heated vegetable oil, While frying, stir continously until the colour becomes golden brown, then scoop them out and drain.

Deep fry

Your chin chin is ready for the eating!

Enjoy!