Suya with a Peanut-Spice Crust

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:15:00 +0000

Suya is Nigeria’s most famous street food, and it earns that reputation on smell alone: beef sliced paper-thin, coated in a dry, rust-red peanut spice mix and grilled fast over open coals until the crust turns dark and faintly bitter at the edges in exactly the right way. The twist this version leans into is the crust itself, built as a genuine double layer rather than a single dusting, so it forms an almost lacquered, savoury-hot shell that stays put on the meat instead of falling away on the first bite. It takes half an hour, most of it resting time, and turns a packet of sliced beef into something that tastes like it came off a roadside grill in Kaduna.

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Suya with a Peanut-Spice Crust