Banana Puff Puff Pastry – The online cook

You need to think twice before you discard the over-ripe bananas in your kitchen. Trust this recipe and you’ll surely get a delicious outcome.

Nigerians enjoy pastries a lot and today I share with you an easy overripe banana recipe on how to make puff puff with banana.

Puff puff is a well loved pastry. It is sold by street food vendors, included in party menu as a favourite and also enjoyed as a lazy day at home relaxation snack.

This puff puff recipe has a unique twist that makes it more delicious, the ingredients needed are listed below.

Ingredients

5 overripe bananas
14g instant yeast
3 cups water
5.5 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons sugar
cooking oil

How to make banana puff puff pastry.

For this recipe, we’ll start by activating the yeast to make this pastry. To do this;

Pour 1/2 tbsp sugar into 1 cup of lukewarm water
Add 14g yeast and mix well
Set aside, cover and allow the yeast to activate for 10 minutes
Peel all the bananas
Put everything in a food processor and blend
Pour the activated yeast into the food processor with the blended banana
Add flour, salt and sugar
Thoroughly mix with the food processor
Transfer the dough into a mixing bowl
Cover and allow to rise for 45 minutes
To fry the puff puff batter, put a deep frying pan on the cooking
Fill it with a lot of cooking oil
Allow cooking oil heat up well
Test the hotness by dropping a small batter in the oil
Watch to see that it floats immediately – but if it doesn’t float immediately, that means the oil is not hot enough
Now drop the batter in the hot oil in small ball
Be careful not to overcrowd the pan
Reduce cooking heat to allow the pastry fry well from inside out.
After 2-3 minutes turn the puff puff to allow the other side fry well
Till it is golden brown
Place kitchen paper towel in a colander to absorb excess oil
Scoop the pastry out of the hot oil
Put it in the colander
Repeat the process until all the pastry has been fried.