No Yeast Puff Puff
No Yeast Puff Puff — a tasty variety of the traditional popular African snacks Puff Puff which is made of self-rising flour instead of yeast, sugar, beer, egg and oil. No need to wait long to get a bite of these delicious treats. Great for breakfast and parties too!
If you have ever traveled to a West African country or attended a West African gathering chances are you have tasted this fried dough. It is an extremely popular West African snack food that is sold on every street corner imaginable and goes under different aliases.
Ghanaians call it Bofrot (togbei), Congolese call it mikate, gbofloto in Ivory Coast; Cameroonians and Nigerians call it Puff-Puff or African beignet in other parts of Africa.
I have made the original yeast puff -puff recipe featured here and of course couldn’t help but jazz it up with another variation – coconut puff puff. Not to be forgotten is this African doughnut, which is basically cake doughnut.
Today, the honor goes to this no yeast beer puff puff. I love this childhood favorite snack of mine that am not going to end here – certainly not! It would not be my last puff puff.
Can you blame me? They are simple, and straight forward to make, and a crowd pleaser.
What sells this recipe is the length of time it takes to make it. This deep fried bread is for those times when you don’t have the patience to wait for the yeast to do it ‘s magic.It taste just like beer bread only this one is even better- Fried.
Instead of yeast, it is made with self-rising flour -in a gratifying short time -less than 15 minutes you will be biting into it! I decided to include beer in this recipe to make it tender, airy and flavorful.
All you need is self-rising flour, sugar, beer, egg and oil. This snack was mainly served for breakfast , but today , especially with Africans living abroad . It is a must for parties. So go ahead and save this recipe when the craving kicks in. You can roll this puff puff in cinnamon sugar, if you like. Enjoy for breakfast with coffee, tea or African snack.
Watch How to Make It
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No Yeast Puff Puff
Ingredients
- 3 cups (375 g) Self-rising flour
- ½ cup (100 g) sugar
- ½ cup (124.69 ml) beer , I used Heineken
- 1 large egg
- 1 ¼ cup (296.25 ml) water
- ½ teaspoons (1 g) nutmeg , optional
- oil for deep frying
Instructions
- In a large, sauce pan pour vegetable oil, until it is at least 3 inches (or about 5 centimeters) high (too little will result in flatter balls), and place on medium heat until oil is 375 degrees.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl mix all the dry ingredients, flour, and sugar.
- Stir in the water, eggs, beer ; mix well until everything has been fully incorporated. The batter should be smooth, thick and spoon able.
- I use my hands to scoop up the batter; you can do the same or use 2 spoons – one to scoop up the batter, and another spoon or spatula to drop it in the oil- in the shape of a ball. Do not overcrowd the pan. Do so in batches
- Fry for a few minutes until the bottom side is golden brown.
- Turn the ball over and fry for a few more minutes until the other side is golden brown.
- Use a large spoon or something like that to take it out of the oil. I usually place them on napkins right away to soak up some of the excess oil.
- Roll in cinnamon sugar as soon as you remove from the pan or deep in melted butter, then roll in cinnamon sugar , if you want to go the cinnamon sugar route.
- Best serve warm
Tips & Notes:
3 cups flour
4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt Cinnamon sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
Nutrition Information:
i loved this thing
Perfect! Loved the texture too♥️
Yay! Glad you loved it, Deedee!
I tried on ur recipes and the result was just great
Thank you, Ayite! Glad you loved it :).
Please what can use in place of the beer and of course not yeast .thanks
Hi Sophia! You can replace it with water, lime soda, sprite or Mountain Dew. Do let me know how it turns out for you!
Can I use ginger beer.
Yes you can.
Hello. Thank you for this recipe
Cant wait to try it. But can I replace the beer with milk?
Yes you sure can.
I tried this today after work. So tasty and beautiful looking. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this recipe. I tried it with Mountain Dew and it came out good. I’ve tried to make puff puff using other recipes but it didn’t work ! This was so easy and quick. So yummy with crunchy peanut butter !! Thanks again Imma
Thank you also for sharing your feedback, Lise. Glad it turned out great for you. ANd peanut butter sounds fantastic with this!
Can l remove beer from the recipe
You can with good results.replace with water , lime soda, sprite or Mountain Dew.
Good morning,do you have a school and where are you at?
Hi. I’m in California, US and I don’t handle culinary classes. Happy Monday!
Would like to try this, however, do not like beer the smell or taste. What can be substituted for beer?
You can replace with water , lime soda, sprite or Mountain Dew.
My Puff puff doesn’t come out round especially during the last batches. They have this irregular shape like 8 lol and long. Do u know what the problem might be? I reduced the amount of baking powder to 3 tsp instead of 4 tsp per 3 cups of flour as u suggested but no change.
Happy New Year Kelsey ! Girl it happens to me sometimes, try making sure its thoroughly mixed. And add about 2 extra tablespoons of water to the entire mixture of puff puff, it helps .
My Puff puff doesn’t come out round especially during the last batches. They have this irregular shape like 8 lol and long. Do u know what the problem might be? I reduced the amount of baking powder to 3 tsp instead of 4 tsp per 3 cups of flour as u suggested but no change.