How to make Nkate Cake
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Loading... - Deborah Baah
- 28 Feb 2023
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Nkate cake (also nkati cake) is a Ghanaian snack made with just two ingredients: groundnuts and granulated sugar. If you ever have a lot of groundnuts (peanuts) and you don't know what to do with them, you can make nkate cake.
Written properly, "Nkateɛ" is the word for groundnuts(peanuts) in Twi, and well cake is cake. Loosely translated Nkate cake is a groundnut cake which is fair if you ask me.
Nkate cake is very similar to peanut brittle and the only difference is in the number of ingredients and the process used to make them.
Peanut brittle typically has additional ingredients like butter, water, baking powder, honey, and so on. Nkate cake is usually limited to two main ingredients. You will find that nkate cake is sometimes referred to as peanut brittle and generally that is not too far off.
Ingredients for Nkate cake
For this recipe, you only need unsalted, crushed, roasted groundnuts and granulated sugar.
Instructions
- If you have raw unpeeled groundnuts, the first step is to roast them and peel them. You can roast the groundnuts in the oven or in a pan over a stove. Make sure the heat is medium so that they don't burn.
- The next step is to crush the groundnuts into smaller pieces but not into a paste. This can be done in a couple of ways. You can use a food processor to pulse the groundnuts or place the peanuts in a Ziploc back and break them into smaller pieces with a rolling pin. Read More…
