🇵🇭 How to Make Kwek-Kwek

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🛒 Ingredients

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• 12 quail eggs, boiled and peeled
• 100g flour
• 100g cornflour
• 1 tsp orange or annatto food colouring
• 150ml water
• oil for frying
• Dip: vinegar, soy, onion, chilli

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Toss the peeled quail eggs in a little plain flour first — batter will not stick to a bare wet egg.
2. Whisk the flour, cornflour, colouring and water into a batter about the thickness of double cream.
3. Heat the oil to 180°C.
4. Dip each egg and lower it straight in. Fry 2 min until the coating puffs and sets bright orange.
5. Do a few at a time so the oil stays hot.
6. Skewer three to a stick and dunk in the sharp vinegar dip. Kwek-kwek uses quail eggs; the chicken-egg version is called tokneneng.