Make Chin-Chin for Consumption… Chin-chin is a common snack in Nigeria. This is a very simple and light snack made at affordable prices for consumption. This kind of snack can be eaten at work, home in cinemas and other places. Chin-chin is a snack that is easy to make. Most people love if for its taste, others love it for it color and nature.
Chin-chin is a combination of flour, milk and sugar and other optional ingredients like baking powder, nutmeg and egg. They are two types of chin-chin; the soft crumbly and slightly crunchy chin-chin and the really crunchy and snappy chin-chin.
In the process of frying chin-chin you have to be extremely careful in order to avoid burn from hot oil because such accident could be very painful. If you are a type that likes hard chin-chin, use Omit baking powder, and do not use egg and add ½ cup of flour. Making chin-chin is so interesting
I will like to list the ingredients used to make soft chin-chin.
- 8 cups[1kg] of plain flour[all-purpose flour]
- ¾ cups [150ml] evaporated milk [peak milk] and 150 powdered milk.
- 1 cup of granulated sugar.
- 250g margarine
- 2 medium nutmegs/two teaspoons ground nutmeg
- Tasteless and odorless vegetable oil [for frying].
Ingredient for making crunchy chin-chin:
- 1kg plain flour[all purpose flour]
- 75ml evaporated milk, 75g powdered milk
- 200g of granulated sugar
- 125g margarine
- 2 medium nutmegs/2 teaspoons ground nut meg
- Vegetable oil.
How to Prepare Chin-Chin.
- Mix the milk and sugar in a bowl and leave it to soak.
- In another bowl, mix the ground nutmeg and flour then turn the margarine into the flour and mix it with the flour, leaving no lumps.
- Add the sugar and milk mixture to the margarine/flour and mix by hand till it becomes smooth dough.
- Place the dough on flat surface and start spreading gently with a dough roller
- When it is flat cut it into desired sizes.
- Fry it in hot vegetable oil.
- While on fire, stir continuously till you get a golden brown color.
- Scoop the fried pieces onto a flat plate to dry and cool down quickly.
In the preparation of chin-chin, they are several methods. I’ll Iove to talk on the second method
Ingredients
4 cups all-purpose flour [1/2kg or 500 grams]
- ½ cup of granulated sugar [eight table spoons]
- A cup of evaporated milk.
- ½ cup unsalted butter.
- ½ tea spoon ground nutmeg
- 2 eggs.
- A pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Frying oil.
How to Prepare
- Mix together the eggs, sugar and milk in a bowl.
- In a large bowel, a separate bowel, rub in flour, butter, baking powder, ground nut-meg and salt with your finger-tips until the mixture is even.
- Mix the egg and add into the dry ingredients and mix to form dough.
- Transfer the dough to a floured surface and knead for one minute.
- Cut a small portion of the dough then roll out to become thick and cut with a knife into squares or thin strips. Heat oil in a pan for about 10 minutes to become hot and tart frying in small batches.
- When the chin-chin gets cools completely, store it up for.
After making your chin-chin you could either sell it or consume it. If you want to sell it you will have to package it in a nice pack and make sure it looks attractive. I’ll give u a brief marketing strategy/ how to be successful in selling your chin-chin.
Marketing Strategy.
- Add value:
When I talk of adding value, you have to add something extra to the same thing everyone is making. Chin-chin is easy to make and a large number of people will engage in the same business. When you add something extra, it will make your product unique and outstanding.
A good example, the story of the man that came up with the idea of using chicken instead of beef to make burgers, it actually sounded stupid initially, but when he tried selling it customers found it taste better than buggers made with beef. If you really want to make it in your chin-chin business you have to add value to the way it is made.
- Market well: First, start with people around you and inform them about your intention to make it a business. You can also take it to your place of work, but make sure you don’t sell on credit, because in your place of work most people would want to buy on credit. Not only your place of work take a step, go to other offices, banks and so on.
- Be regular in production: It is one thing to establish a customer, and it is also another thing to keep the relationship. Your customers can only be yours if you supply your chin-chin daily without ceasing. In order to achieve this, you have to maintain contact with them to know when your product is needed.
- Roll over your profits: In every business it is either you get increasing or decreasing, there is no average ground. Patience is the top secret so roll over your profit and with time you will be joyed.
- Get patented: As your business expands and your product becomes popular because of its uniqueness, it is advisable that you register your products under a name with the corporate Affairs Commission and NAFDAC.
With this you will have the sole right to sell the product and no one else will imitate your style, and the law will protect you against people who may try to do this.
- Employ people to assist you. When you have succeeding doing all these, it is time you become the boss. You can now employ someone to assist you. As your business expands, you will need more hands. Not just someone to help you in the chin-chin making but also someone to help in keeping records of income and expenditure.
This will go a long way as in helping you solve your problems, and also solve the problem of unemployment.
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