Suya

Name: Suya
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 1/2 kg Beef; 2 cups Suya spice (Dried peppers, ginger, garlic, groundnuts); 100 ml vegetable oil (odourless); 15 suya sticks

Chef Weenee @Chef_Weenee

Egbeda Lagos

I've always wanted to try out suya at home, I did and it was delicious! I had fun enjoying it with my family 😁👌😘

Chef Weenee @Chef_Weenee

Egbeda Lagos

I've always wanted to try out suya at home, I did and it was delicious! I had fun enjoying it with my family 😁👌😘

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Ingredients

5 servings

1/2 kgBeef
2 cupsSuya spice (Dried peppers, ginger, garlic, groundnuts)
100 mlvegetable oil (odourless)
15suya sticks

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Steps

1

Soak the Suya sticks in cold water for at least 5 hours. This ensures that the sticks do not burn during the roasting of the Suya.
2

Wash and cut the beef into very thin fillets.
Usually, if you freeze the beef a little bit, it makes the cutting easier (but Suya Mallams say that if you want to make the best Suya, do not refrigerate or freeze the beef)
If the fillets are long and large, cut them into small pieces such that when you thread them on the sticks, they will not flap too much.
3

Thread the fillets of beef on the Suya sticks.
4

Put some vegetable oil in a bowl, add a small quantity of salt and stir. Using a cooking brush, rub the vegetable oil on the threaded fillets of beef. This is what helps the Suya spice stick to the meat so make sure you do not leave out any part of the meat.
5

In a wide dish, spread the Suya spice and dab the threaded fillets of beef in the spice so that the beef takes up as much of the spice as possible. All the beef will be covered with the Suya spice when you are done.
6

Place all the now spiced beef in a flat plate, cover with a thin plastic film and leave to marinate for 1 hour.
7

Once the beef has marinated for 1 hour, set your oven to preheat for 10 minutes. The settings should be Grill at 150°C or about 300°F
Place the beef flat on the oven rack and put in the oven to roast.
After 15 - 20 minutes, flip the beef to roast the underside as well. The length of time you'll roast each side depends on how thick the fillets are. So total roasting time for both sides of the beef is 30 - 40 minutes.
8

Rub some of the remaining groundnut oil on both sides of the beef. Increase the oven temperature a bit and roast either side of the beef for 5 minutes each.
9

Serve thereafter with some slices of cucumber, cabbage and onions