How to make Garri Kuli Kuli Cookies

Garri Kuli Kuli

Garri Kuli Kuli cookies is a product of my most recent creative escapades. The outcome of this easy-to-make cookies was so good I could not believe it. Using simple, everyday ingredients like Garri and Kuli Kuli around us, we can create amazing foods.  Kuli Kuli is basically groundnut cookies made from groundnut cake. It is that hard paste that you get when the oil has been pressed out of the groundnut. This is a very labour-intensive process. Your arm muscle has to be strong to do this.

So I  had ordered some kuli kuli to be made for me by a friend in Kaduna in the north of Nigeria. On arrival in Lagos some of the kuli kuli had crumbled so “What to do?”. I decided to add it to my drinking Ijebu garri to have a nice sunny day Nigerian light meal. Whilst enjoying my ‘soaking’ it clicked that I could actually make some cookies out of the same ingredients . That is how Garri Kuli Kuli was born. I know so many people that have asked to taste this interesting new Nigerian Snack. So I made some and took to Flavour of Lagos Food Fair that happened over the independence holiday in Lagos. The feedback was overwhelming.

Recipe for Garri Kuli Kuli

1 cup Ijebu Garri

1/4 cup crushed KuliKuli

1/2 cup Evaporated milk or mixed powdered milk

1 table spoon Sugar

 

Method for making Garri Kuli Kuli

1. Mix garri and crushed kuli kui in a bowl

2. Mix the sugar and milk

3. Add to the garri and mix

4. Knead the ‘dough’ well to incorporate the ingredients well.

5. Place dough in a zip lock bag and roll out with a rolling pin. The dough should be rolled out thin

6. Using a knife open up the zip lock bag on 2 sides, so that you can cut the dough into desired shapes

7. Place the cookies on a backing tray or oven racks and bake for about 20 minutes at 375 degrees

8. You may have to turn cookies if using baking tray so it browns on all sides well.

9. Allow to cool and crunch away.