Crunchy peanut cookies

Name: Crunchy peanut cookies
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 2 cups flour; 2 eggs; 1/2 cup sugar; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 tsp baking powder; Oil for frying; Roasted peanuts chopped; for the sticky sauce:; 1/2 cup corn or rice syrup; 4 tbsp sugar; 4 tbsp water

mhhadejia @mhhadejia1975

Kaduna State, Nigeria

So crunchy and tasty!

mhhadejia @mhhadejia1975

Kaduna State, Nigeria

So crunchy and tasty!

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Ingredients

2 cupsflour
2eggs
1/2 cupsugar
1/2 tspsalt
1 tspvanilla extract
2 tbspvegetable oil
1 tspbaking powder
Oil for frying
Roasted peanuts chopped
for the sticky sauce:
1/2 cupcorn or rice syrup
4 tbspsugar
4 tbspwater

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Steps

1

In a bowl add in the eggs,sugar,salt,vanilla,veg.oil and stir using a wooden spoon till well combined.Add the flour and baking powder and mix to form a dough.use your hand to knead it till soft.wrap in plastic wrap and keep in the fridge for 30 mins.
2

After 30 mins take some dough and roll into a long rope
3

The rope should be thin not too thick
4

Cut to about 2 inch sticks.Do the same with the remaining dough(keep the remaining dough covered while cutting).
5

Fry them in oil till golden brown.
6

You can eat them like this or bake them in the oven at 200c for about 8 mins to make them more crunchy and coat them with sticky sauce.
7

For the sticky sauce,in a sauce pan add in the corn syrup,sugar and water and cook under low heat do not stir.when it starts to bubble tilt the pan back and forth.
8

After baking the cookies put them in a pan and add the chopped peanuts turn on the heat and pour the sauce over the cookies and stir with a wooden spoon to coat them well.switch off the heat
9

Pour them out on a parchment paper or plastic wrap allow them to cool down then separate them and store in an air tight container.
10

You can use golden syrup instead of corn or rice syrup.just reduce the quantity of granulated sugar to 2tbsp instead of 4 when using the golden syrup.
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Recipe of golden syrup coming soon.