My Waina (Masa)
My Waina (Masa)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, my waina (masa). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Waina This is a rice dish often referred to as Masa, which is shaped like a mini cake and is made using short grain rice. This short grain variety of rice in highly consumed in the Northern part of Nigeria and is referred to as Tuwo rice. Waina has a background in Northern Nigeria and is enjoyed by the Northerners across all the states. Waina is a simple meal that is also known as Masa.

My Waina (Masa) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. My Waina (Masa) is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have my waina (masa) using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make My Waina (Masa):
  1. Get 4 cups White rice
  2. Take 1 tea spoon Salt
  3. Prepare 4 tea spoon Sugar
  4. Prepare 1/4 tea spoon Yeast
  5. Get 2 Onions
  6. Take Vegetable oil

When visiting any of the northern states you will find Masa being sold in street corners. The type of masa that is eaten with soups are not sweetened. There are special pots made for this purpose. Masa also known as waina or rice puff puff is a popular snack from Northern Nigeria.

Steps to make My Waina (Masa):
  1. Here are a sample of our ingredients
  2. Measure 3 cups of the white rice and wash very well, ensure to remove stones if rice has stones.
  3. Soak the washed rice in water for 8hours. (I usually soak mine over the night so I can make it for dinner the next day).
  4. Measure another 1 cup of rice, wash, put it in a pot, boil and allow it cook very well. You will discover that your soaked rice would be soft after 8hours.
  5. Measure 1/4 tea spoon of yeast, pour into the cooked rice. Get your blender (if it's strong enough else, you should take it to a grinding engine), drain the water of soaked rice and pour into the blender. Add the cooked rice with yeast into the blender.
  6. Add little Water and blend to a very smooth paste. Slice onions into the paste, seal it up or cover for it, set aside for 5hours.
  7. Get the paste, add sugar, salt and water if it's too thick. Stir very well and ready to fry.
  8. Get your Waina pot/morphine pan and place it on fire. Greece pan with vegetable oil and use a deep spoon to fetch the paste into the morphine pan. Leave it to fry for a minute depending on the strength of the fire. Turn it to the other side using a small spoon or chop stick and allow to fry to achieve a light golden brown.
  9. Your Waina is ready. Pack out of the pan. You can eat it like that as snacks. You can also eat it with honey, spices pepper (yaji) and of course with soup 😋 I had mine with soup and it was super yummy 😋. Bon Appetit

There are special pots made for this purpose. 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. The process of making wainan sugar is same as making the normal masa.

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