What Is The Difference Between Puff Puff And Buns?
What Is The Difference Between Puff Puff And Buns? Please watch the video for a better explanation of puff puff
- Puff Puff vs Buns: What’s the difference?
- Puff-Puff vs. Buns: Twins with a difference
- Nigerian Buns vs Nigerian Puff Puff
- The truth about the differences between Puff-Puff and Buns
What is the difference between puffs and buns? An Overview
The distinction between Nigerian buns and puff puff is not much, which is why some people are confused.
Nigerian buns and puff puffs may be confusing to some, but not to a kpof kpof enthusiast like myself.
Nigerian buns and kpof kpof are both popular street snacks in Nigeria. Many Nigerians, including myself, prefer puff puff. Others prefer the more difficult version, buns.
Puff-Puff and Buns are uncannily similar street snacks made by deep frying balled-up pastry.
Puff-Puff vs. Buns: What is the main distinction?
Buns have a crunchy outside and a pillowy-soft inside, whereas Puff-Puff has a spongy soft outside.
The exterior of buns is dry and crunchy, whereas the exterior of puff puff is oily. An oily bun is another name for puff puff.
In buns, baking powder is used, whereas yeast is used in puff puff. At Nigerian events, puff puff is used as small chops.
They also have very similar ingredients, with the exception of yeast. They do, however, necessitate varying levels of preparation.
While Nigerian Buns are more flavorful, with a crunchy exterior and pillowy insides, Puff Puff is more oily, with a soft inside and out.
Nigerians have been known to add pepper, chocolate, fruits, and other ingredients to their puff puff, not buns
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What Is The Difference Between Puff Puff And Buns?
Puff-Puff
Apart from being a street delicacy, Nigerian puffpuff is also served as small chops at weddings.
Puffpuff has reached new heights in Nigeria and is now rolled in chocolate, but I prefer my regular Ajekpako Puff Puff.
Making puff balls is simple because it uses fewer ingredients and requires little to no skill.
Puff puff recipe
Ingredients
For about 25 balls of Puff Puff, the size in the video, you will need the following:
- 2 cups (250g) of Plain Flour
- 2 teaspoons of yeast (the one used in baking bread)
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg (optional)
- ½ cup granulated sugar (or to your taste)
- 2 pinches of salt
- Lukewarm water (for mixing)
- Vegetable Oil (for deep frying)
Recipe for 50 pieces of puff puff
You will need;
Puff Puff Ingredients for 400 grams Flour
- 3 cups (approx. 400 grams) flour
- 3 teaspoons yeast
- 2 cups of water
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup of sugar
- Optional ( ¾ teaspoons grated nutmeg)
This recipe makes about 24 medium-sized puff puffs OR 48 to 50 small/ mini puff puff balls.
500 grams (½ KG) Flour Puff Puff Recipe: Ingredients and Measurement
- 4 cups (500 grams or half a kilogram) flour
- 4 teaspoons yeast
- 2 ½ cups water
- ¾ tsp salt
- half to ¾ cups sugar
- Optional (1 teaspoon grated nutmeg).
This recipe makes about 32 medium-sized puff puffs OR 64 mini puff puff balls.
1 Kilogram (1Kg) Flour Puff Puff Recipe: Ingredients and Measurement
- 8 cups (1 kg) flour
- 8 teaspoons yeast
- 5 cups water
- 1 and ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup sugar
- Optional (2 teaspoons grated nutmeg).
This recipe makes about 64 medium-sized puff puffs OR 128 small-sized puff puffs.
2 Kilograms (2 kg) Flour Puff Puff Recipe: Ingredients and Measurement
- 16 cups (2 kg) flour
- 16 teaspoons yeast
- 10 cups water
- 3 tsp salt
- 2 cups of sugar
- Optional (2 teaspoons grated nutmeg).
This recipe makes about 128 medium-sized puff puffs OR 256 small-sized puff puffs.
NOTE: Puff puffs served at a party or wedding are made in much smaller dough balls, resulting in twice the number of fried puff puffs.
If you use 2 cups of flour and drop smaller dough balls into the hot oil, you can make up to 48 small fried puff puff balls instead of the 24 medium-sized ones listed above.
Steps for Making Puff Puffs (Detailed Explanation)
How to make Puff-Puff
- Combine all of the dry ingredients. Add lukewarm water in small amounts to the dry mixture to make a batter (the batter should not be too runny or too thick; find a balance).
- Place the bowl in a warm place and cover with cling film or a damp towel to proof. (It usually takes an hour or two for the batter to double in size.
- Heat vegetable oil in a pot until it is at least 3 inches high (you can leave it longer if you want). Make sure the oil is hot before using it by dropping a small amount of batter into it.
- If the dough is hot, it will rise; if it is not, it will remain at the bottom. Using your hands, gently drop a small amount of the mixture into the oil one at a time.
- Fry for a few minutes or until the bottom side is golden brown. Flip the ball over and continue to fry for a few minutes or until the other side is golden brown.
- Remove it from the oil with a large spoon and place it in a clean napkin to soak up the excess oil.
To make it tastier, roll the finished product in powdered sugar or liquid chocolate.
Buns Recipe
The Buns! Buns! Buns! The conductors and wheelbarrow pushers are the most popular.
These people adore buns because eating just one ball quickly fills the stomach.
In other words, it is a quick and filling snack.
The distinction Buns, like puff-puff, are made with milk, butter, and eggs.
Ingredients for Buns
These ingredients give it a crunchy exterior while keeping it soft on the inside.
To make buns, you’ll need:
- 3 cups of Flour
- 1 cup of Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- Two tablespoons of baking powder or yeast
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 cup of Butter
- I cup of Milk
- Vegetable oil
Method
- Firstly, gather all of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
- Then, mix in the flour, yeast or baking powder, sugar, and a pinch of salt. Everything should be thoroughly combined.
- After that, continue mixing the dough after adding the milk and eggs. To make it round, form small balls of dough with your hands or an ice cream scoop.
- Next, deep fry the dough until golden brown.
- Use a spatula to stir the balls while they are frying.
- Lastly, serve the snack with a chilled soft drink.
10 Differences between Nigerian Buns and Puff Puff
Let’s compare and contrast Nigerian buns and puff puff.
These ten distinctions are merely my opinion after research to assist you in differentiating between these two twin brothers known as puff puff and buns.
Ten Distinctions between Nigerian Buns and Puff Puff
- Buns have a crunchy exterior, whereas puff puff is soft all the way through. Puff puff contains no crunchy component. It’s squishy.
- Buns is full and pillowy on the inside. Puff puff is light and airy.
- The same sized buns and puff puff will not weigh the same because buns are heavy and puff puff is light.
- The exterior of the buns is dry and crunchy, whereas the exterior of the puff puff is oily.
- Oily bun is another name for puff puff.
- In buns, baking powder is used, whereas yeast is used in puff puff.
- At Nigerian events, puff puff is used as small chops. Buns are not served/provided.
- Pepper is occasionally added to puff puff. There is no pepper in buns
- Their recipes are not identical. Puff puffs take longer to make because the batter must rise for an hour or more.
- Milk is commonly used in bun recipes but is rarely used in puff puff recipes.
FAQs on The Difference Between Puff And Buns?
Why is my puff puff flat?
What’s the deal with my puff puff being flat? Or, why didn’t my Puff Puff rise?
Maybe you added too much water while mixing and your batter is too watery, or maybe you didn’t add enough yeast.
Perhaps the YEAST has expired or has been open for an inordinately long period of time. (Longer than 6 months, makes it not fresh)
Which flour is best for puff puff ~ what is Nigerian puff puff made of?
In Nigeria, puff-puff is a traditional African snack made of fried dough.
Puff-puffs are made from dough that contains flour, yeast, sugar, butter, salt, water, and optional eggs, and are deep-fried in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Puff puff without yeast ~ what can I use instead of yeast in donuts?
In baked goods, yeast can be substituted for an equal amount of baking powder.
Keep in mind that the leavening effects of baking powder will be less noticeable than those of yeast.
Baking powder causes baked goods to rise quickly, but not as quickly as yeast.
How do you make bread rise without yeast?
Baking Soda and Lemon Juice
To successfully substitute yeast in a recipe, simply substitute the appropriate amount of baking soda and acid to make the dough rise.
As your base, you can use lemon juice, buttermilk, or milk mixed with an equal amount of vinegar as your acid
How to make puff puff round? Please watch the video above
he effect of too much yeast in puff puff
If you use too much yeast in your puff-Puff, it will ferment faster and lose flavor.
