Alkaki (A local Dessert)

Alkaki is one of Hausa popular snack. Mostly found in the newly wedded brides homes. It's a dessert liked by many. It's made of wheat and some few other ingredients like baking powder, baking soda, oil, etc. It's one of my favorite snack too. Never get tired of eating it. My family loves it too 😊 Could you believe that this is my first time of making it? Yes, it is. And so many people were surprised, even now. My mum was the first to taste it and she loved it 🥰 Alhamdulillah! Am so happy for the turn out of the alkaki. It encourage me to make more of it than always buying it outside. Whenever I see it on the road sides, I stop to buy. It's really a delicious and fingerlicking snack. I spent hours in the kitchen today making it today since morning, it wasn't easy but it's worth the time 😊

 Pls do try this recipe and let me know your thoughts about it. Kindly drop your comments and I will be glad. Thanks.

  Ingredients:

4 cups crushed wheat (barzajjen alkama)

2 tbsp oil

1  1/2 tbsp active dry yeast

About 1 tbsp baking powder

1 or 1/2 cup of warm water (You may add more)

 For Sugar Syrup

1 cup sugar

1 cup warm water

4 sliced lime

  Method

In a mixing bowl, add the crushed wheat and the oil. Mix well with your hand. Add the yeast and baking powder, mix well to combine. Gradually add the warm water little at a time; mixing. Don't put too much water. The dough should not be watery. It should be thick. Knead well to form a soft dough. Keep in the mixing bowl, cover and allow to rest for 2 hours in a warm place. It will not rise but the dough will be soft. 

  Pound the dough in a clean mortar with a pestle for five minutes. If the dough is too thick. Sprinkle some warm water as you pound it. The dough should be sticking on the pestle, that indicates that the dough is soft.

 Remove from the mortar, put it back in your mixing bowl and knead for 5 minutes. Then, take some of the dough and roll it a bit thick like rope, just as it is in the above ☝️  picture, number 2. Then fold it like letter "U"as it is in the picture above ☝️, that's number 3. Look at the pictures above ☝️ and do the rest. Sprinkle some of the crushed wheat in a large tray and start arranging the alkaki.

Repeat the process till you exhaust the dough. Allow to rest for 30 minutes to 1 hour. The alkaki will rise. 

  Heat the oil in a pan and fry the alkaki till golden brown. Strain in a strainer. 

  SUGAR SYRUP

Place a medium pot on the fire. Pour the sugar and the water. Stir till it dissolve. Add the sliced lime and keep stirring till it starts boiling. Remove from the fire and set aside.

  Soak the alkaki in the syrup in batches till you exhaust the whole alkaki. Serve and enjoy the delicious dessert.

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