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Garri and Groundnut Cookies

Garri is mainly eaten as a fufu or soaked in water and eaten as a porridge. Never have we considered making cookies out of garri. Saturday morning, lounging in bed with a  nicely brewed cup of tea and some English cookies and this idea pops up . I imagined  the taste of garri and groundnut in the mouth and knew instantly that this creation will rock it….some thought on a Saturday morning:) . But just garri and groundnut was going to be quite bleh, so I thought to spice things up a bit.  Suya pepper( Yaji) will do it and with some sugar, another Nigerian culinary waooh was bornn 🙂 ( dancing Etighi)

I knowsome of us have found ourselves sneaking 1 or 2 cups of garri and some groundnut in our suitcases when travelling outside Nigeria, just to have something “sensible” to eat when all will get is raw vegetables…aka..salad . Garri and groundnut just  reminds Nigerians of home. How about taking your two favourite food items in such future trips in a more appealing way * wink * wink. I can hear some say its not like ‘soaking’ the real thing,  yeah yeah, but it will help.
So I head to the kitchen and 30 minutes later some nice crunchy and spicy cookies emerge, and the house hold is crunching away.
I just love them cookies, that crunchiness, coupled with the spiciness of the Suya pepper, I am pleased with this one and  you will be also. It’s the simplicity of the ingredients for the cookies that just excites me. Try these out and crunch away……

How to make Garri and Groundnut cookies?

Recipe
1/2 cup white Ijebu Garri (tangy type)
Half cup crushed Groundnuts
4 cubes Sugar or 4 table spoons honey
3/4 cup  Water
1 teaspoon  Suya pepper

Method
1, Crush the groundnut into small pieces but not powdery
2,Mix all the dry ingredients together
3,Dissolve the sugar in the water
4,Pour the sugar water into the garri mix
5, Using your hands knead the garri mix to form a smooth dough. Almost like it’s for swallowing.
6,Place the dough in a transparent cellophane and roll out with a rolling pin. Make sure dough is rolled out thin to have that crunchiness when baked
7, Use a small goblet or cookie cutter and cut  dough into circular shapes
8,Place on baking tray and bake for about 25 – 30minutes or until brown and crispy.

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