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Groundnut Milk

Also known as Groundnut Milk (Peanut Milk)

Blended roasted or soaked groundnuts strained into a rich plant milk. Different from kunu gyada, which is a rice-and-groundnut gruel already in the book.

Groundnut Milk, Nigerian cooking

Ingredients

  • 2 cups of roasted or soaked raw groundnuts
  • 4 cups of water
  • 2 dates or 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • A pinch of salt
  • Vanilla or ginger, optional

Method

  1. 01

    Blend the nuts with water until very smooth. Strain through a cloth.

  2. 02

    Sweeten, add salt and flavouring. Chill. Shake before pouring. Keeps 2 days in the fridge.

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