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Kanyah: Dry De(s)sert with nuts and rice

Posted By: Esther Bardhan | Apr 4 2006

Africa: Liberia, West Africa

Kanyah is an interesting dessert made in Africa and it is a dry dessert made only with parched rice or rice flour, peanuts and sugar. This dessert is made by browning shelled peanuts, rice flour or uncooked rice, grinding them finely into a powder and mixing sugar with it.

peanut cookies
peanut cookies

This simple dessert is simply nutritious and can be used in moist dessert, ice creams and custards. Kanyah can also be stored in air-tight containers or pressed together to make cookies...I am thinking to pipe-in some cream.

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