Roasting Groundnuts for Kuli Kuli, a Hausa snack food that is primarily made from groundnuts. It is a popular snack food throughout Nigeria. It can be eaten alone or with a combination of gari, sugar and water, this is popularly called “gari soaking”.
Kuli Kuli is also eaten with koko, fura, akamu, and is sometimes ground and used as a salad, suya and kilishi mix. Kuli Kuli is made with roasted groundnuts ground into a paste called “Labu”, then mixed with spices, salt and ground pepper if desired.
The paste is stripped of excess oil using water, and hand rolled into the desired shape. The oil removed through this process is heated and used to fry the Kuli Kuli.
Kuli Kuli served as the inspiration for the US based nutritional food company Kuli Kuli that sells moringa based nutritional bars in Northern California and Nevada.
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Kuli kuli is nice.
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Thank you for treating me with Kuli Kuli though this post; I could almost taste it. That is a nice portrait.
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Thank you
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Thanks Juju Films for sharing this. However, Kulikuli is very much everyone’s food in Nigeria today, I’ll give it to the Hausas that they make the best ones. And in Yoruba, it goes well with soaked gaari for lunch!
And that frying pot should be called Superpot as we mostly use it to fry gaari!
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Folakemi you are right on that Kuli Kuli is very much now a Nigerian snack, I believe the Yorubas like to spicy theirs with hot pepper. I wonder why in Nigeria we refer to it as frying when indeed it is roasting in a frying pan since there is no oil used?
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Ha, you got me!
Well there is lots of Lost in Translation big time with all of our languages translated to English. However, that was my error though as in Yoruba we san ‘yan gaari’ meaning ‘roast gaari’ however when translated to English more often than not ‘fry’ is used when indeed we meant ‘roast’
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I absolutely, absolutely adore roasted groundnuts! Even when everyone moaned about getting pimples and what not, I couldn’t care less! I love groundnuts roasted, boiled…they are the best.
It’s ironic that over here people bang on about organic food when back in Nigeria that’s all we ever ate anyway!
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Yep I remember in secondary school we ate groundnuts with everything, groundnuts soaked in gari, groundnuts and bread, groundnuts and banana, groundnuts and roast plantain, groundnuts in suya mix, you name it a very good sauce of protein.
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After spotting this – and other posts relating to food – scurried out to Berkeley to the only African market I know of and loaded the basket with all sorts of nuts, berries, roots and yams I had yet to imbibe, shall we say these old eyes were opened and – granted california cooked/prepared may have changed the texture/taste I found myself making a return trip (the attractiveness of the store owner had nothing to do with my return; yeah I’m lying)
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Lol
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