Top 10 Nigerian snacks and how to make them

Each of us loves different types of snacks. If you live or travel to Nigeria, you should learn more about the most delicious and common local meals. We have created a nice compilation of the best Nigerian snacks and how to make them guides. You will love these recipes because they are simple, delicious, and extremely popular in Africa.

Different types of snacks

There are so many various snacks loved in different countries around the world. For example, Nigerians prefer making deep-fried meals, baked and roasted snacks. Most of the local recipes are very delicious and nutritious.

If you would like to cook something Nigerian-like, you can learn how to make snacks from our guides. Below we will list some of the most popular snacks to make at home. Get ready for coconut, plantain, flour, and meat snack ideas.

10 best Nigerian snacks with recipes

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1. Banana bread

It is a popular homemade bread for banana lovers. You can make this bread on the weekend and enjoy throughout the week with jam, honey, and other extras.

Here are the ingredients you need to make banana bread:

• Ripe bananas – 2-3 pieces
• Flour – 1 cup
• Eggs – 4 pieces
• Evaporated milk – 1-2 cups
• Butter – 0.75 cup
• Sugar – 0.25 cup
• Yeast – 0.5 teaspoon
• Baking soda – 1 teaspoon
• Salt – 0.5 teaspoon
• Nuts (cashew or ground nuts) – 0.25 cup

Enjoy the simple recipe for banana bread Nigerian snack:

1. Take the eggs out of the refrigerator so that they reach the room temperature by the time you will have to add them to this recipe.
2. If you have a microwave, pre-heat the milk for half a minute in it. If you don’t have this machine, pre-heat the milk on a stove.
3. Carefully add yeast to your milk and mix this mixture.
4. Take another bowl and put flour in it. Add baking soda, sugar, and salt and mix all these ingredients.
5. You should break all the nuts into tiny pieces. Do this with a spoon or rolling pin.
6. The butter needs to be melted.
7. Take another bowl and peel bananas. Use a spoon or masher to mash this product inside the bowl.
8. In another bowl, break the eggs and gently whisk them.
9. Inside your mixture of milk plus yeast and flour, slowly pour the melted butter plus bananas. Mix everything together.
10. Add all other ingredients (the dry ones) and keep mixing.
11. Add the nuts and continue to mix all the products. Your dough will look nice and smooth when ready.
12. You need a bread pan. Put the dough on it and decorate the top with the leftover nuts.
13. Preheat your oven and bake the bread for about 60 minutes.

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This banana bread is delicious. You can have a slice with a cup of coffee, milk, hot chocolate or juice, which makes it a perfect breakfast snack in Nigeria.

2. Puff Puff

Among many Nigerian snacks, puff puff is extremely popular and well known even outside the country. There is a classic version and different extras for people who like sweet, spicy food, etc.

Here are the ingredients needed for puff puff recipe:

• Flour – 1.5 cups
• Yeast – 2 teaspoon
• Nutmeg (ground) – 0.5 teaspoon
• Sugar – 0.25 cup or more (how you like it)
• Salt – a pinch
• Oil (vegetable or olive) – from 1 to 3 cups (sometimes less, sometimes more)
• Water – 1 cup

Quick recipe: how to make puff puff snacks

1. Take a deep bowl and put flour along with sugar, salt, nutmeg, and yeast inside. Stir everything into a smooth mixture.
2. Slowly pour in the water (make sure it is warm) and keep stirring.
3. Leave your dough for about an hour. You are advised to cover the bowl with foil and set aside in a warm place.
4. You will know the dough is ready when it doubles in size. Now you can fry the puff puff. So take a frying pan and add oil. There should be enough oil to fry your snacks. Turn on the fire on the stove and heat the oil.
5. Make small round balls from the dough and put them to ‘swim’ in the oil. Your snack is ready when each puff puff turns into pretty golden-brown color. Make sure you flip the balls around to fry each side.
6. Before eating this popular Nigerian snack, you should put puff puff balls on a paper towel to remove excess oil.

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3. Meat pie with coconuts

Everyone has heard of traditional Nigerian meat pie, and we have made sure to list this snack recipe below.

List of ingredients needed:

• Regular flour – 3.25 cup
• Coconut flour – nearly 1 cup
• Coconut milk – 1.5 cup
• Eggs – 1 piece
• Butter – 150 grams
• Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
• Salt – a bit (to your taste)
• Meat – 1 cup
• Coconut oil – 3 tablespoon
• Pepper (red, green, black) – to your taste
• Stock cube – 1 piece
• Onion – half a bulb
• Carrots – 1 piece
• Thyme – 1 teaspoon
• Mushroom – 2 pieces (optional)

How to make coconut meat pie filling:

1. Cut the meat into small pieces along with mushrooms (if you are using them), carrot and onion.
2. Take a spoon of regular flour and put into a small bowl. Add a little bit of coconut milk to create a thickener.
3. Take a pan or pot and add some coconut oil to it. Put on the stove and turn on the fire. You’ll need to put the chopped onions first and let them fry alone for 60 seconds.
4. Add the pieces of meat and fry it to turn a nice pale color. Keep mixing periodically and later add the crushed cube along with thyme and black pepper. Salt the meat just like you love it.
5. Pour half a cup of coconut milk into your meat and add carrot and mushrooms. Keep stirring for a while. Then cover the pan and let it steam for a minute. If you prefer adding green/red bell pepper, you can do this now, before you turn off the heat and let your filling rest for a while.

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How to make dough and meat pie with coconuts:

1. You should find a deep bowl and put the regular flour into it. Mix it with coconut flour, add salt and baking powder. It is necessary to mix all these ingredients really well.
2. Cut the butter and add piece by piece to your flour. You need to rub it into the flour creating a crumb-like mixture.
3. Pour a cup of coconut milk and mix your dough. Let it rest for 15-20 minutes. In the end, add an egg and prepare to cook the popular Nigerian snack.
4. Take your dough onto a smooth surface. Roll it out to create a circle 5-6 millimeters thick.
5. Use a cutter (any shape you like) and rub each piece with a beaten egg from one side.
6. Add a little bit of meat filling inside each dough shape you have cut. Close every piece sealing it with a fork or your fingers.
7. Put your meat pies on a tray covered with butter, rub the beaten egg over all the pies and place your tray inside an oven to bake for 35-45 minutes.

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4. Pancakes with coconut taste

If you prefer snacks along with a diet, take a look at the coconut pancake recipe.

Ingredients you’ll need:

• Eggs – 3 pieces
• Coconut flour – 3 tablespoon
• Evaporated milk – 5 tablespoon
• Sugar (powdered type) – 2 teaspoon
• Coconut oil – 1 teaspoon
• Salt – a little bit (how you like it)
• Vegetable or olive oil – a little bit

How to make pancake snacks:

1. Take a bowl and pour some coconut oil inside.
2. Separate white from yolk in eggs and add the whites into the bowl with oil. Also, add sugar and mix it.
3. Put coconut flour in this bowl, salt it and add milk. Keep stirring the mixture. The batter for your pancakes is ready.
4. Put a pan on the stove (use low heat) and add some oil to keep the pancake from burning. Pour the batter using a deep spoon onto the pan and fry each pancake one by one (both sides).

The popular Nigerian snack is ready.

5. Chin chin snacks

As we have already mentioned, Nigerians are in love with deeply fried snacks. Chin chin is a bright example of such a meal, and it is simple to make if you follow our recipe.

ingredients:

• Flour – 8 cup
• Evaporated milk – 3 cup
• Sugar (granulated) – 0.5 cup
• Butter or margarine – 250 grams
• Ground nutmeg – 2 teaspoon
• Egg – 2 pieces
• Olive or vegetable oil – a lot to fry chin chin
• Water – not too much

How to make chin chin snack:

1. Get a deep bowl and put the flour inside. Add nutmeg plus sugar and start mixing.
2. Put in the pieces of margarine/butter (cut it in pieces) and rub into the flour. The mixture will remind of crumbs.
3. Break eggs into the mixture and keep stirring.
4. Pour in the milk and keep mixing to make the dough. Set the bowl aside for 10-15 minutes.
5. Put the dough on the flat surface and cut into chin chin pieces.
6. Take a deep pan and add oil inside. Since the chin chin will be covered with oil, you will need enough of it. Turn on the heat and wait till oil gets hot.
7. Place future chin chins into the oil and cook them until they turn a pretty brown color. To avoid the pieces sticking to each other, stir with a spoon once in a while.
8. It is better to place ready chin chin onto a paper towel to remove excess oil.

6. Beef jerky snacks

This is a cool snack for people who love spicy food. It is known as Kilichi or Kilishi in the north of the country, and you can also prepare it at home.

List of ingredients for Nigerian beef jerky snack:

• Beef (extremely thin of 3 millimeters, without fat) – 10 pieces
• Suya pepper – 1 tablespoon
• Garlic – 3 cloves from one bulb
• Kanafuru clove – 1 teaspoon
• Ginger – 1 piece
• Stock cube – 1 piece
• Cayenne pepper (seed) – 1 teaspoon
• Salt – to your taste

How to make this popular snack in Nigeria:

1. Mill the kanafuru clove and peel the garlic to get three cloves. Also, grind the ginger into a nice paste-like mixture. Place all these ingredients in a bowl.
2. Add the stock cube (crush it beforehand) and pour in a little bit of water. Keep mixing everything.
3. Add pepper plus spice to your mixture called Kilichi, stir and put away for a while.
4. Make sure your beef pieces are thin and have no fat. Preheat your oven, you should use high temperature and take a baking tray. Place the beef stripes on the tray covered with the baking sheet and salt them to your taste.
5. Bake your beef for 14-18 minutes, but remember to flip all the pieces over several times. This way they will dry evenly and quicker.
6. Take the tray out of the oven and brush all the beef pieces with your Kilichi mixture (on both sides) and put back into the oven for another 15 minutes.

7. Plantain chips

Everything you need to make this popular Nigerian snack is plantains, vegetable oil, and some salt.

Here is how you prepare your chips:

1. Wash plantains. Peel them and slice into very thin circles.
2. Place all the slices into water until you finish. This way you can maintain their color. Salt the water and stir.
3. All the water has to be drained to leave plantain slices dry before cooking them.
4. Add oil into a deep pan and preheat it. Place plantain slices into the hot oil and fry like this (both sides) until they turn yellow.
5. Remove extra oil from your chips with the help of paper towels and enjoy the delicious snack.

You can store your plantain chips in containers and eat between meals.

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8. Bobozee snack

Ingredients you’ll need:

• Coconut – 1 piece
• Cassava tubers – several
• Ground nuts (roasted) – to your taste
• Palm kernel

How to make bobozee in Nigeria:

1. Wash tubers and peel them.
2. Cut each tuber into pieces (cylinders or stripes). Place them into a deep pot and cover with water.
3. Remove the tubers from water and slice into 3 millimeter-thick pieces. Place them back into the pot with water and leave like this overnight.
4. Rinse all the pieces the next day (use new water each time). This way you’ll get rid of the sour flavor.

Enjoy the snack with coconut, nuts, and palm kernel.

9. Coconut candies

Do you like desserts? You can make delicious Nigerian snacks called coconut candies.

Everything you will need to make coconut candy snack is one coconut, water and powdered sugar (200 grams).

Here is how to make Nigerian candy snacks:

1. Break your coconut. Make sure it is fresh. Collect all the juice into a separate bowl.
2. Scoop all the coconut meat away from the shell and grate it into small pieces.
3. Add sugar to the bowl with coconut juice and mix. Add the fruit 'meat' pieces as well and keep stirring everything together.
4. Pour the water to slightly cover all the coconut meat. Stir your ingredients.
5. Place everything you have in the bowl into a deep pot. Cover it and place on the stove at high temperature.
6. Your ingredients will boil, and you should stir them and then lower down the heat. Let the contents cook until you see the pieces of coconut meat turn light-brown color. Now put the pot away from the stove and let your candy cool down.

10. Chicken wings with mango

These are the ingredients needed:

• Chicken wings – 12-15 pieces
• Mango – one piece
• Onion powder – 2 teaspoon
• Thyme – 1 teaspoon
• Black pepper – 0.5 teaspoon
• Salt – to your taste
• Chicken cube – 3 pieces
• Ketchup – 1 teaspoon
• Habanero pepper – 1 piece

How to make this Nigerian snack at home:

1. Take a bowl and blend several ingredients into it, including thyme, cubes, onion powder (or pieces, if you prefer using a fresh onion) and black pepper. You should get a powder-like mixture.
2. Make sure all the chicken wings are clean from feathers. Wash them.
3. Put chicken wings into a deep bowl and cover with all the ingredients you have blended in the first step. Stir this mixture and cover with foil. Put away into a cold place (or refrigerator) for 60 minutes. They will marinate.
4. Preheat oven and put all the wings onto a baking tray. Place the tray into the oven at medium heat for half an hour.
5. While your chicken wings are cooking, you can wash mango, peel it and cut into small fruit pieces. You need to also remove seeds from habanero pepper and cut it into small pieces as well.
6. Blend the mixture of mango and pepper and salt them.
7. Rub your new mixture over the wings that are in the oven and let it cook for another 5 minutes. Now rub even more mixture over them and bake for another 10 minutes.

Here you go. Your mango chicken wings are ready to be served.

You have learned how to make snacks that are extremely popular in Nigeria. Follow our Nigerian recipes and make various types of snack right at your home.

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