Chips

Have you attended any Ghanaian funeral and seen some chips with peanuts ? OR have you received a pastry bag from a Ghanaian event and it had chips, meat pie and scones or pound cake? Well these are the chips......I really don't know what else to call these but chips because that's exactly what they are lol. 

Ingredients:

• 5lbs flour (1 bag of flour)
• 2lbs butter (8 sticks)
• 2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons of salt(I use Lawry's seasoning salt simply because of the flavor it gives)
• 1 teaspoon of onion or garlic powder (optional,gives it flavor)
• 1 tablespoon of sugar (optional, I use it because it gives it a little sweet taste)
• Water to mix
• 1/2 a gallon of oil(for frying)

PS: I said garlic powder not salt because if you use garlic salt and the seasoning salt you would end up with an overly salty chips and that leaves a sour taste in your mouth, no one wants that lol. 

Method:

1. Using your hands, mix the butter and flour until you get a bread crumb like texture, add your salt,onion powder ,nutmeg and sugar
2. Using cold water, mix it until dough forms and make like in the picture below
3. Roll with a pin and cut them in preferred sizes, you can use a scissors or knife to cut them
4. On medium heat, fry them until they are golden brown

PS: when you cut them, set them aside in a tray with flour at the bottom and on top of it so they don't stick together. (Hopefully this makes sense,lol)

Step by step to the chips

All ready...:-D 

Buns(Nigerians) or Sweet Bud(Ghanaians)

A not so oily (even though it's fried). Ps: if you want it sweeter you add more sugar to it.
Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup  of flour
• 2 tablespoons of evaporated milk
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 warm water
• Oil for frying

Method:

1. Sieve flour, add in sugar,salt, nutmeg and baking powder. Mix well
2. Add in your milk, slowly add in water till dough forms and becomes sticky
3. Make small balls out of the dough, set them aside, heat up your oil, then put in the balls
4. Fry for 10-15mins or till when its light brown/deep yellow.

Ps: Keep stirring until the buns come to the top of the oil. If there's a crack in your buns no worries because that's the classic crack that comes with it

Larger batch

This was rough and sweet lol.

Bofrot/Boflot/Bofloat = Ball Float

Oh man one of my favorite snacks,well according to one of the friends of Theedee's cuisine page on fb(Maha-Marissa) these are called ball float (like balls floating in oil) but somehow Ghanaians we ended up with bofrot or bofloat (Gotta love Ghanaians lol). I had a craving for these just like they sell on the streets in Accra but I couldn't find none in New York so what does a foodie like me do I go on a search for the recipe. And waa-la I found it from my Auntie Mary of course lol.They taste close to exactly what I was craving for.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of flour 
• 2 teaspoons of yeast
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/3 cup of sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
• 1/3 cup  of lukewarm water
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• Oil for frying

Method:

1. Stir yeast in 1/4 cup of warm water. Stir in 1 teaspoon of sugar and set aside for 10mins. If the mixture doubles in volume the yeast is active
2. Mix your flour,butter,sugar,nutmeg and stir in the yeast. Slowly add in your milk and water. 
3. Sprinkle some flour on a clean surface and knead your mixture till its very smooth and doesn't stick to the surface (this is the longest process for this whole recipe,usually takes about 10-15mins because you want the dough to be very smooth). 
4. Cut pieces of the dough and mold it into small balls, place on a baking sheet(sprinkle some flour on the sheet)
5. Cover with napkin or towel and allow the dough to rise(usually takes 30mins to an hour to rise, it also depends on how warm the kitchen is, the heat enables it to rise faster)
6. Fry until golden brown. (When the oil is extremely hot it doesn't take a long time for it to brown so keep stirring and keep paying attention to it)

Dissolving yeast

Milk and water mixture

Flour-ed baking sheet to place the ball float

Step by step after kneading

A perfectly risen bofrot. I was so happy when I saw this. Haha. 

Another perfectly risen ball float lol

Step by step frying stages, as you can see the ball floats were browning very quickly but don't take them out just yet because you want the insides to be well done. 

In the process

Ball floating in oil I loved how this turned out :-D 

Hot and tasty! Haha. :-)

This is how the inside of the ball float should look. If the dough is still stretchy that means its not ready

Too good. Ps: someone placed an order for this lol,...wasn't for the house