hi everyone welcome back to my channel today i will be showing you how to make this amazingly
tasty suya recipe yes i do have a recipe already on this channel but i did get quite
a lot of requests from people asking how to make their own suya spice so i thought why not
so this is more about the suya spice than the suya itself but you can always
have more than one recipe now can't you so without further ado let's get on with it
so i will be using sirloin for this recipe you can use any other soft or tender beef
cup that you prefer you can ask your local butcher for recommendations but
i typically use sirloin or rib eye for suya these have been pre-cut but
they're not as thin as i would like them to be so i will be doing that in a minute
to prepare i will be tenderizing the beef by
spreading on my chopping board and covering with cling film
using the meat mallet i will be pounding until it's thinner and more tender if you haven't got
a mallet you can use a hammer or you can use a bottle or just anything to pound it really
and after tenderizing i will proceed to cut into bite sizes please be sure to cut against the grain
and this is to keep the meat pieces soft easy to chew and digest i will be finishing the rest
off camera and that's just so the video is not unnecessarily long and i'll be back i'm done with
the beef i'll make some vegetable oil onion powder garlic powder chicken cubes and salt together
so you can use pretty much any kind of oil that you prefer you can use
sunflower oil whichever one is fine to be honest but i love to use vegetable oil
and after mixing i will be pouring this over my beef
and after massaging deeply into the meat i will be
covering with some cling film and then leave to marinate for about four hours
you can do anything between two hours and overnight although i strongly recommend that
you do overnight and that's just so the meat can be really flavorful and that's it with the beef
one important step is to soak your barbecue skewers in water you can do this for about
four hours or overnight and this is just so the sticks don't burn while you're grilling
and once i'm done marinating the beef i will be layering them onto my skewers just as i'm showing
so i should mention at this point that if you're struggling to find skewers you really don't need
it it's not that important it doesn't add any flavor or anything to the recipe is just to keep
the meat in one place so if you've got a big enough tray that you can
layer the meat on without overlapping then feel free to do that you don't need to use
skewers
now once i'm done layering the skewers i will be transferring into a tray that's
big enough to hold them and then i will begin to add some spice
in case you're wondering but she hasn't shown us how to make this video spice now don't worry
i will be showing that at the end of the video i'm just trying to make everything nice and tidy
but at the end of the video like i said there will be a demonstration on how to make yours so
i will be patting down and just make sure that the serial spice is well distributed around the meat
and once i'm done with that i will be arranging onto a roasting rack with a tray to hold the
drippings this will be transferred into my oven and it will be roasted at 180 degrees celsius
for about 25 minutes you can also use an air fryer but when i did that
i didn't really like the taste i don't know it just it just wasn't
as nice as the oven baked one but it's up to you if you want to use that
and after 25 minutes this is what it looks like i had to flip them once
i think around 15 minutes mark and that's just so to cook evenly
so this is fine for me and i will be showing you how to make the suya spice now
the most important ingredient for sure spice is kulikuli kulikuli is a fred snack made
from peanuts ginger and some other ingredients if you haven't got kulikuli you can also use
peanut powder although it's not going to taste exactly the same because like i said they also
contain some more ingredients other than peanuts for full disclosure i didn't really like this
kulikuli this particular brand was i don't know it just tasted a bit burnt and as you can see
the color is a lot darker than normal so whatever you do please buy the darker beige color or the
light brown color this wasn't it at all i didn't like it we also need some uda also known as
alligator pepper or grains of selim we only need to use a couple of this otherwise the suya spice
will taste bitter so this is what it looks like we also need some calabash nutmeg that's ehuru
bouillon cubes ginger powder onion powder salt chili powder and some garlic powder
so here i've got a pan on medium heat and once it heats up i will go in with
my calabash nutmeg and the alligator pepper all we're doing here is just to
to sort of roast for about two to three minutes and this is just to release or
activate the flavors and once that's done i will be taking it off the heat
so the next step is to crush my kulikuli and to do that i will be pouring that into a bag
and then heating with the meat mallet until it is crumbled the reason for doing this is
because i don't like to use my blender for anything sharp and you really shouldn't
especially if your it with plastic because all it's going to do is just leave marks on your
blender and also make it cloudy even if it's a glass blender as well i prefer to use a mill
but the mill that i've got as you can see is quite small so i will be transferring
the crumbled kulikuli into the the mill and then add just three of the uhuru seeds and also two
of the uda seeds you can add more if you want but like i said it does make it a bit bitter
and after transferring i will be covering with the lid and then grind until smooth
please be very careful when you're doing this because if you grind for too long it
will begin to release oil and that will make it wet so don't do it for too long
it's okay if it's not super smooth that's fine so this is what it looks like after grinding
and i'm satisfied with this so i'm just going to set it aside
now just to thoroughly combine the rest of the ingredients i will be transferring
them into the meal and then grind until smooth well not really grinding anyways
i'm just trying to combine them so i will be doing that just now
so this is what it looks like after combining and i'm satisfied with this so i will be transferring
some of the kulikuli into here and then combining again and once that's done i will be transferring
into a bowl and this is your suya spice i should confess here that this did not taste exactly that
the aboki ones in fact i don't think anyone can actually get that proper aboki aboki suya suya
flavor but it's better than nothing it did taste very good yeah it did but for full disclosure it
didn't taste exactly like the aboki ones because the aboki is a benchmark for ultimate suya spice
so just so you know and this is what it looks like can you see how beautiful my suya looks
well grilled and absolutely delicious i tell you anyway will you be trying this recipe if
you do please let me know how you get on by leaving your comments in the comment section
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