How To Make Rice Flour Fufu Swallow

How to make elastic tuwo shinkafa with palm oil

 How to make rice flour fufu swallow. My rice flour fufu swallow to try When compared with other forms of fufu like garri, semolina, semovita, poundo, wheat etc, rice flour is the
cheapest. Being able to create this lovely swallow from it aside the white inelastic rice flour tuwo shinkafa that we know. I think I just discovered the most economical form of fufu for my family.

I didn’t expected it to be rushed the way it happened. It’s  the first time I’m serving shinkafa to my family, but everybody enjoyed it so much and suggested that with the high cost of poundo flour, this is the best for us yet.

 

WHY I MADE THIS SWALLOW

These two bags of rice flour have been in the pantry for months after I used a little to make shortbread for the kids, shortbread that didn’t turn out well even after I followed that online recipe to the teeth.

The blog pics that enticed me were so well presented and inviting.  I had to bake those cookies with my laptop in the kitchen to make sure there’s no mistake, yet for where?  My cookies were falling all over the place like garri made with too little water.

 After that failed attempt, I  didn’t know what to do with the excess rice flour

I didn’t want the usual tuwo shinkafa either.  When yesterday, my daughter asked if I’m aware that my bags of rice flour are going to expire next month, I had to get creative in the kitchen.  

Quickly sent my brother to the market to get me edible starch,they were all wondering what I wanted the starch for and because na my first trial, I refused to disclose because I know how they like to laugh at my mistakes in this house.  

Quietly I set to work using just a quarter of the one hundred naira starch bought and 2 cups  rice flour with just a scoop of palm oil.

There are actually two methods of making tuwo shinkafa. One is to mix the flour/starch with palm oil in a bowl and water before adding to the pot of boiling water. Another method is to first cook the flour and starch before adding palm oil in the cooking pot.

Steps to make 

First, mix a handful of rice flour with some water and boil.

1. Mix a tablespoon of starch with water until it looks like raw pap about to be cooked, you can add the palm oil to this even though it won’t mix well now, don’t worry, just set aside.
2. Then, measure the rice flour you want to make and begin to add gradually while briskly stirring the boiling pot of tuwo. If you need to add some more water, feel free to do so. Add the starch. (Shop measuring spoons and cups)
3. Add a tablespoon of palm oil, depending on how colourful and elastic you want it because as we know, palm oil reduces the elasticity of carbs. Stir until the oil is well mixed and the whole dough is one colour. Stir more for about 2 to 3 minutes or until tuwo looks like what is on the picture below.
4. Scoop out in small quantities and wrap in cellophane (bread) bags so it doesn’t get cold and hard.
5. Serve with any soup of choice. Best enjoyed with ogbono or okro soup

NOTE: If you see tiny lumps while making your tuwo, just sprinkle in some more rice flour and stir until every lump disappears.

Rice flour with the 100 naira starch from the market.

 

I take out just a quarter of this starch to mix with the rice flour for my exceptional tuwo shinkafa African  fufu.

The starch is crushed, stirred in water like when we make pap for babies, then a scoop of palm oil is poured on top. Palm oil is the best thing you can add to starch. If your stomach reacts not so good  after eating starchy foods, try adding palm oil and see the difference. Anyway, I do always add palm oil to my babies’ pap because I introduce them quite early to pap and, palm oil helps it digest very well without giving baby stomach problems or indigestion.  Again, you can’t see my  babies’ poop looking greenish or fatty and I always thought it’s because of palm oil that  their poop’s always that colourful.  Imagine me talking  about baby poop beside a plate of food, una nor vex abeg.

It turns out a bit lumpy, so I sprinkle some rice flour to smoothen  while I stir.

 

You know my cameras by now, how they behave. This shinkafa looked more beautiful and appetising   than you see in pictures.

My Colourful tuwo shinkafa. Rice flour fufu  is my go to swallow for now I mean it.  I served this fufu with one kind cheap native soup that I Would have loved to share o, but as no meat inside the soup, liver nor dey, I  dey fear.  Happy stirring and swallowing! See you tomorrow with my party jollof rice and it’s secret ingredients.   The palm oil prevents the bottom pot from bburning.

ALSO CHECK OUT EGUSI SOUP WITH COW TAIL SERVED WITH TUWO SHINKAFA.

How do you make your tuwo shinkafa (Rice fufu)?

Enjoy our rice flour fufu. You’ll love it. Also see how to make fufu swallow from baking flour