Chin Chin Recipe: How To Make Chin Chin Step By Step (2024)

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About Chin Chin Recipe

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As far as crash courses go, I want you to know first and foremost that Chin Chin is made from combining flour, sugar, milk, butter, and nutmeg or cinnamon and pretty much deep-frying the whole thing.

I also want you to know that personally, if Chin Chin is not soft and well flavoured, it can easily be one of my most disliked snacks.

I hear some people prefer theirs hard like stone (Oyo is your case ooo. More grace to your jaw. Your teeth is very strong 😒).

But I guess what sets it apart from most Nigerian snacks is that it’s one of the easiest to make (compare it to baking a cake and see what I mean).

Most people in Nigeria prefer to make it during festive seasons (some serve it to guests during these periods) but as I said, it’s easy to make so it can be made virally any time you want.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to business proper.

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Equipment

  • Air tight containers (for preserving the Chin Chin Check on Jumia for up to 30% off. Click here)
  • Bowl
  • Egg beater
  • Rolling pin
  • Knife (For cutting the dough into small shapes).
  • Frying pan

Ingredients for making Chin Chin

  • Flour
  • Sugar
  • Milk
  • Eggs
  • Baking powder
  • Flavor
  • Cinnamon or Nutmeg
  • Groundnut oil

You have everything ready? Good. Now to the fun part.

Step by Step Directions

Follow my step by step directions below:

Step 1: Grab a clean bowl and mix the Sugar, Nutmeg, Flour and Baking Powder together.

Step 2: Break your eggs into the powdered mixture while also adding melted butter and milk. Now mix together until it forms a dough. Next, knead the dough for 3 minutes.

Step 3: Now roll out the dough into a very thin sheet and use a knife to cut it into tiny pieces according to the shape you like (some people prefer squares, some prefare rectangles and some can even cut it triangular).

Step 4: Heat groundnut oil in a frying pan or pot that will be sufficient to deep fry the snack (if you’re the type who likes to economize your oil, you’re out of luck today because this recipe dey chop oil kpa! Be ready!).

Step 5: Wait for it to cool down and your African/Nigerian Chin Chin is ready.

Preservatives for chin chin

How do you preserve your Chin Chin? Undoubtedly, if you make it and don’t take certain measures to ensure it’s kept preserved, it will spoil once air gets into it as all snacks will. Keeping this in mind, the bet way to preserve it is to store it in an air-tight container and I promise you, it will last a very long time.

Check out these air tight containers on Jumia to preserve your Chin Chin.

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Chin Chin Recipe: How To Make Chin Chin Step By Step

Chin Chin Recipe: How To Make Chin Chin Step By Step, with Yeast that you can even put up for sale!

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time20 minutes mins

Total Time35 minutes mins

Course: Appetizer, Dessert, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine: african, nigerian

Keyword: Chin Chin recipe, How to make Chin Chin

Servings: 8 People

Calories: 166kcal

Equipment

  • Bowl

  • Egg beater

  • Rolling pin

  • Knife

  • Frying pan

Ingredients

  • Flour
  • Sugar
  • Milk
  • Eggs
  • Baking powder
  • Flavor
  • Cinnamon or Nutmeg
  • Groundnut oil

Instructions

  • Mix the Sugar, Nutmeg, Flour and Baking Powder together in a bowl

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  • Break your eggs into the powdered mixture while also adding melted butter and milk. Mix together until it forms a dough. Next, knead the dough for 3 minutes.

    Chin Chin Recipe: How To Make Chin Chin Step By Step (4)

  • Roll out the dough into a very thin sheet and use a knife to cut it into tiny pieces according to the shape you like

    Chin Chin Recipe: How To Make Chin Chin Step By Step (5)

  • Heat groundnut oil in a frying pan or pot that will be sufficient to deep fry the snack

    Chin Chin Recipe: How To Make Chin Chin Step By Step (6)

  • Wait for it to cool down

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Notes

How to preserve your Chin Chin

How to make sure the oil is just hot enough.

  • Put some dough in the oil. If it sinks to the bottom and doesn't rise up fast enough, then the oil is not hot enough.
  • If it rises up too the top too fast, then the oil is too hot. Lower your flame.
  • But if the dough gradually floats to the surface of the oil, then it's hot enough.

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Chin Chin Recipe: How To Make Chin Chin Step By Step (2024)

FAQs

How to make chin chin with two cups of flour? ›

Ingredients
  1. 2 cups flour.
  2. Half 125g butter.
  3. 1/2 cup sugar.
  4. 1 egg.
  5. 1/2 teaspoon baking powder.
  6. 1/2 of evaporated milk.
  7. little salt.
  8. Oil for suyaaa.
Aug 17, 2020

What does too much baking powder do to chin chin? ›

The more baking powder is added to the chin chin the softer it becomes. To enjoy a crunchy feel while eating a soft but not too soft chin chin, stick to this chin chin recipe.

What makes chin chin soft after frying in Nigeria? ›

If the chin chin is soft after frying and cooling, it wasn't fried long enough or it was cut too thick.

Can you make chinchin without eggs? ›

Cooking Instructions
  1. Sift flour into a bowl.
  2. Add sugar baking powder and mix.
  3. Rub in your butter.
  4. Add milk,water and mix to form a smooth dough.
  5. Cover and allow to rest gor 15mins.
  6. Use a roll pin to roll out dough into 1/4 inch thickness.
  7. Use a knife or pizza cutter to cut into small squares.
  8. Heat oil and fry unti golden.
Apr 22, 2020

Can I add yeast to chin chin? ›

Sift all the dry ingredients together. Add the veg oil and mix thoroughly until it gives you a bread crumbs like texture. Add the yeast and sugar in the warm water to proof it. When the yeast is activated i.e it has form some bubbles)add it to the dry ingredients,mix very until you achieve a smooth and soft dough.

How to make crunchy chin chin for sale near Lagos? ›

Recipe for chin chin
  1. Combine margarine, flour, sugar, salt, and spices like nutmeg.
  2. Mix the baking powder with your fingers in a mixing dish.
  3. Mix until it resembles bread crumbs.
  4. Add an egg and a water-milk combination to tie them together. ...
  5. Rest the dough covered with plastic wrap or a clean kitchen towel.
Nov 1, 2022

How to make chinchin without milk? ›

Ingredients
  1. 4 cups all-purpose flour sifted.
  2. 1 tsp baking powder.
  3. 1 large egg.
  4. 1/2 tsp nutmeg or cinnamon powder.
  5. 1/4 tsp salt.
  6. 4 tbsp butter.
  7. 1/2 cup sugar.
  8. 1/2 c water to dilute sugar.
Jul 19, 2022

Can I use vegetable oil instead of butter for chin chin? ›

Use only tasteless and odourless vegetable oils such as sunflower oil and the vegetable oils sold in Nigeria when frying Nigerian Chin Chin. The eggs are optional, only add them if you want your Chin Chin softer. Sift the flour into a big enough bowl. Add the granulated sugar and ground nutmeg and mix.

What is another name for chinchin? ›

Chin chin is a fried snack from Nigeria. It is known as atchom*on in Togo and Benin, achom*o in Ghana, and croquette or Chin Chin in Cameroon.

Can I use cassava flour to make chin chin? ›

Conclusion: In conclusion, it was observed that acceptable chin-chin could be prepared from rice and the high-quality cassava composite flour.

Is chin chin business profitable? ›

Using these common ingredients, you can make delicious chin chin. You can choose to use hand-made, or you can buy chin chin production machines to achieve large-scale commercial production. No matter what method you use to make it, the chin chin business is very profitable.

How to make soft chin chin for sale? ›

Method for making Nigerian Chin Chin
  1. Sieve the flour baking powder and nut meg or cinnamon oor thyme into a bowl.
  2. Cut the margarine into small bits and add to the flour. ...
  3. Rub the flour and margarine together using the tip of your fingers and lifting the flour up whilst doing this.

What is the use of chin chin? ›

You can transfer a big bag of energy in your body by eating these flavorful chin chins. The traditional Nigerian snack also provides many vitamins to the body including A, B3, and D. It also provides some benefits to the heart.

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