A while back, I shared my puff puff recipe and while I raved about my love for those drop donuts, I have a new fried love: Nigerian buns. It might be because there is no wait time for the mixture to rise, or that I prefer the texture in general, but I currently prefer Nigerian buns over puff puff any day. Now, this love is kind of complicated because I generally do not like the way buns is prepared sometimes. I like the simple and easy version of buns, no milk, no eggs. Eggs change the texture of buns to one I find undesirable, and milk gives it an odd flavor that I personally do not prefer. This recipe shows how to make Nigerian buns without dairy, eggs or any fuss and yet still get that fluffy texture and great taste!
Here is my recipe for what I consider to be the simplest, least complicated, yet perfectly textured Nigerian buns. Once you get the texture down, you are free to customize the flavors to suit your preference. In my case, I used a bit of cayenne pepper and nutmeg, but you can omit those spices and keep it plain, or be creative and experiment with something else… cinnamon, maybe. Feel free to experiment and let me know if you decide to try something different.
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How to Make Nigerian Buns
Ingredients
- 400 grams All purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 175 grams sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 - 1.5 cups water
- Oil for deep frying
- Optional: 1 tsp cayenne pepper 1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
Instructions
- Heat up the oil in a deep pan or pot just before you start prepping the batter.
- In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
- Pour in the water about ¼th cup at a time, mixing lightly each time, until the consistency of the batter is like thick muffin batter. Depending on your flour, you might need more or less than 1- 1 ½ cups of water. Be careful not to overmix as this might make the buns hard.
- The oil should be about 350-355ºF, and on medium heat before you start frying
- Using an ice cream scoop, or your hands if you are so skilled, drop the batter into the hot oil without overcrowding the pan.
- Once one side of the buns is lightly browned, turn and continue to fry until the buns are done. The whole frying process for each batch took about 5 minutes.
- Be careful not to fry the buns in oil that is too hot. It will brown the outside of the buns while keeping the inside raw. If you find that your oil is too hot in the middle of frying, just add a little bit of room temperature oil to the hot oil to bring down the temperature.
- Serve warm!
Notes
58 Comments
Ruth
March 18, 2020 at 6:38 amI want to know how am going to be mixing the ingredients
Chinwendu lgwe
October 7, 2024 at 8:08 amVery very GOOD 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊😊😊
Chimaechi
July 6, 2020 at 12:57 pmThis is by far my favorite Nigerian buns recipe, simple and tasty. All i had to do was convert the flour and sugar measurement from grams to cups and i was good to go. I fry this every other day so much that my teenage girl and i know the recipe by heart. I add cinnamon instead of nutmeg and our popular Cameroon pepper and it tastes delicious. I agree with you on the issue of taste and texture when egg or milk is added. I wish you could come up with a buns recipe (not puff puff) that includes ripe bananas. Ill be on the look out for it here WINK!! Thank you for the recipe it is my GO TO buns recipe.
Goodness
August 5, 2020 at 8:50 amThanks so much for this recipe, I’d like to know 400grams equals how many (tin milk) cups.. Anticipating your reply.. Thanks
Ideal Faith Chuks
August 11, 2020 at 11:17 amBeautiful am impressed. Thanks a lot
Joy
October 18, 2020 at 1:45 pmI just tried it, simple and delicious. Kudos
MamaMia
January 23, 2021 at 8:37 amI made mine and it’s so lovely! I added some cinnamon and vanilla just in small proportions. Thanks for this recipe !!
Jojocy
August 14, 2021 at 10:57 amLooks good hope it’ll be nice 😁😀😁😁
Shar
August 17, 2021 at 7:11 pmI just tried it. Came out so delicious! Didn’t make as much as it was just for myself and it came out great! 🙂
Nenye
August 19, 2021 at 2:48 pmThis is really nice, I tried this recipe and it turned out great.
Chioma Julia
February 9, 2022 at 12:27 amWhat makes it breaking inside oil while still frying?
Oluwakorede A.
May 17, 2022 at 8:51 pmHi,
I literally made this around 1am because I wanted a snack that did not require eggs or milk. Stumbled on your recipe and it came out quite nice. Had to Google the equivalent of the measurements in cups, and I reduced the sugar. Was tasty. I did have issues with flipping the buns in the oil so that the other side would fry. 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
Anyway, thank you.
Princess Nma
July 21, 2022 at 4:07 amI’ve been using egg recipe for a while now, I decided to try something different , so I googled and saw this eggless recipe,I tried it and it came out well. Thank you so much.