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Masa
Fermented rice cakes with onion and ginger, served warm.
About Masa
Lola Osinkolu identifies masa, also called waina, as a traditional Northern Nigerian food associated especially with Hausa communities. Her rice batter combines soaked and cooked rice with onion, ginger and yeast.
Fermentation gives the cakes their slightly tangy character. Sugar and salt season the batter, baking powder is added before cooking, and yogurt remains an optional ingredient in this attributed version.
The batter cooks in shallow round moulds, creating small golden cakes with soft, spongy interiors. The source serves them warm; peanut-based suya pepper sauce is the selected optional accompaniment from its savoury serving suggestions.
Allergens in this recipe
Optional additions: Milk, Peanut.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Masa
Lola Osinkolu's Hausa-style rice masa.
- Tuwo riceBase
- Active dry yeastBase
- WaterLiquid
- Prepared cooked riceBaseIngredient page not linked
- YogurtLiquid · Optional
- OnionAromatic
- GingerAromatic
- SugarSweetener
- SaltSeasoning
- Baking powderBase
- Vegetable oilCooking medium
- Suya pepper sauceAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Tuwo rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual75 offered Tuwo/Arborio/Jasmine branches; Tuwo selected, exact cultivar unknown. Raw rice distinct from prepared cooked rice allocation78.
- Active dry yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit yeast proof77/90, rice soaking89, blending82/91 and optional texture adjustment57 consolidated.
- Prepared cooked rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual78 pre-cooked rice, separate full recipe/rice seasoning unprovided; no invented oil/salt inside compound.
- Yogurt (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual optional79/91, dairy Milk positive; exact product formula unknown.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual85/93, full product formula unprovided.
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual86/94-95 mould greasing, botanical source unprovided.
- Suya pepper sauce (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Peanut source-confirmed. Actual48 explicitly peanut-based sauce and96 Yaji/Suya savoury service. Exact spice/compound formula unprovided; no outside Yaji recipe imported.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
Cuisines & regions
- Hausa Cuisine
- Kanuri CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Nigerien Sahelian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Hausa CuisineCatalogue link pending review