The market · Nuts and seeds · West Africa

Kuli kuli

A Hausa snack from northern Nigeria: groundnut paste with the oil pressed out, shaped and fried until crunchy.

roasted · nutty

What to do with it

Classics built on it
NigerianSuyaThin beef skewers coated in yaji — ground groundnut cake, chilli and spice — and grilled over open coals.1 version here

If you can't find it

West African grocers.

  1. 1Peanut
    Roasted peanuts, ground fine with a little cayenne and salt
    You lose the crisp, fried texture.

Goes with

beefgingerchilli

Cooked with, here

beef sirloinchilli powdergingeronion

How much, here

Suya100g kuli kuliTolu Adeyemi · 9% of the dish

What cooks here have learned

“Ground the kuli kuli fresh”Tolu Adeyemi · Suya v3

Knowing it

Where to buy
African grocers — or make it from roasted peanuts.
A little history
Ground fine with chilli and spices, it becomes yaji — the spice rub that makes suya suya.

Kitchens that keep it in

Nigeria, West AfricaNigerianBig flavours from a big country: tomato and pepper bases, smoke, groundnut and the scotch bonnet — and party food at a scale all of its own.11 classics · 2 cooked here

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