Ingredients to use:
- 1 cup peanuts/groundnuts
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon powdered black pepper
- 1 teaspoon powdered pepper
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup caster or superfine sugar
- Cooking oil
- 1 cup pastry flour
- ½ tea spoon salt
- 1 or 2 eggs
Process:
- Boil water in saucepan over high heat. Put in peanuts and allow to boil for about 3 minutes.
- Strain boiled peanuts and spread out on a baking tray to dry.
- Beat eggs and pour over dried peanuts in baking tray.
- Whisk half of the flour, sugar, nutmeg, baking powder, powdered pepper and powdered black pepper, and pinch of salt.
- Pour the mixture onto the coated peanuts. Gently mix them together.
- Spread out the eggs and mixture coated peanuts and coat a second time with the remaining flour.
- Heat oil in deep frying pan over medium heat. After the oil heats up, gently put in some of the peanuts and stir till they become brown.
- Fetch them out of the oil with a straining ladle into a lined colander and fry the next batch till you exhaust the lot.
- Your coated peanuts are ready to be served after they cool down.