{"id":3064,"slug":"sinasir-nigerian-rice-pancake","title":"Sinasir (Nigerian Rice Pancake)","description":"Sinasir is a rice pancake popular in the northern part of Nigeria. It is made from cooked and soaked short-grained rice as used in tuwo shinkafa.","ingredients_raw":["3 cups uncooked short-grain rice","Water","1 tablespoon yeast","¾ cup sugar","2 onions, chopped","1 teaspoon salt","1 teaspoon baking powder (optional)","2 tablespoons vegetable oil"],"ingredients_norm":["uncooked short grain rice","water","yeast","sugar","onion","salt","baking powder","vegetable oil"],"steps":["Place the rice in a bowl, and cover it with about 1 inch of water. Soak for several hours.","Blend the soaked and parboiled rice in a blender until you get a smooth batter, adding water as necessary.","Transfer the batter to a bowl, then mix in the yeast and sugar. Cover and let ferment at room temperature for a few hours.","Mix in onion, salt, and baking powder.","Heat a non-stick frying pan, and grease with a thin layer of oil.","Scoop in enough batter to make a thin layer in the pan. Cook until the bottom is browned and the pancake is cooked through.","Remove the pancake, and repeat the greasing and cooking process with the remaining batter."],"categories":["Hausa recipes","Recipes using rice","Recipes for pancakes","Recipes using yeast","Recipes using sugar","Recipes using salt","Recipes using baking powder","Recipes using vegetable oil"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":40,"servings":"3–4","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Sinasir_(Nigerian_Rice_Pancake)","source_ref":"4540974","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Sinasir_(Nigerian_Rice_Pancake)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"ce49a44613980e2d8219258808b3756fe35628ea1185ed247626543d7aad7701","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:21Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/sinasir-nigerian-rice-pancake"}