How to make masa Rice puff puff from scratch

Masa rice puff puff served with peppered fish sauce — Masa made from scratch served with peppered sauce

Masa served with fish stew.

Simple recipe for how to make masa rice puff puff

Masa also known as waina or rice puff puff is a popular snack from Northern Nigeria. Tastes like the oily bun (puff puff) and is served with stew or any sauce of choice. This is my first attempt and I’m making just little.

Masa is so delicious that right from the day I saw it chopped in bits and added to the suya I got outside, tasted, I fell in love and promised myself I was going to learn how to make this delicacy.

If you like Nigerian puff puff, you’ll love masa. I didn’t use many ingredients, wanted to savour the natural taste of masa first before adding onion and others with my next try. I make puff puff a lot and one very common thing between masa and Nigerian puff puff is that same aroma after leaving to ferment and rise.

When I opened the blended rice, the aroma confused me, I thought someone replaced my mixture with puff puff batter.

Masa is made with that special tuwo white rice used in making rice fufu (tuwo shinkafa). I was really
craving and eager to just make and enjoy, had to do with the rice I have at home which is the Nigerian Abakaliki rice, Lol. That’s what I used for this delicious masa.

INGREDIENTS FOR MASA RICE PUFF PUFF

2 cups raw rice
1 cup boiled rice
3 tablespoons sugar
3 teaspoons yeast
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Vegetable oil
Water for blending

Masa rice puff puff making procedure:

Procedure below

Very easy:

First I soaked 2 cups of rice overnight, the following day, I boiled another 1 cup very soft and blended the soaked and boiled rice together. After blending I add the yeast, sugar, salt and baking powder before stirring very well to mix.

When completely mixed, the blended rice is poured into a transparent bucket and kept locked up in my cupboard for 5 hours. By the time I checked, Oh My God! It has risen and doubled in size.

I brought out, heated the masa pan, grease and poured in some. When I had filled the pan, I dropped some more oil and waited for it to cook before flipping. Once both sides are cooked, the masa is ready.

Served with Fish sauce and honestly speaking, it was very delicious. No one believed it’s my first attempt at making masa.

Enjoy your masa rice puff puff made simple.