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Best Kuli-kuli in San Francisco
“A peanut snack born from oil-making, now eaten across Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon—alone or crumbled into cassava porridge.”
What the real thing tastes like
Kuli-kuli is a Nigerian snack primarily made from peanuts, first made by the Nupe people of Nigeria. It is a popular snack in Nigeria, Benin, northern Cameroon and Ghana. Today kuli-kuli is accepted across the globe. It is often eaten alone or with a mixture of garri also known as cassava flakes, sugar and water, popularly called "garri soakings". It is also eaten with Hausa koko, fura, and akamu, and is sometimes ground and put into salad. It is often ground and used as an ingredient for suya and kilishi. Kuli-kuli is a byproduct of processing raw peanuts into peanut oil.
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Kuli-kuli arrives as what peanut oil leaves behind—a golden, crunchy byproduct born when the Nupe people of Nigeria pressed raw peanuts centuries ago. What might have been waste became something better: a snack with enough staying power to travel from Nigeria through Benin, Cameroon, and Ghana, and eventually across the globe. You'll find it solo, crumbled into garri soakings for breakfast, or ground into the spiced crust of suya and kilishi.
Order it here when it has
- portable
- multipurpose ingredient
- regional staple with global reach
- minimal-waste production
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