African delicious deep fried pastry |
| Name: |
BERTHA CONNERS |
| Base: |
NAVAL AMPHIBIOUS BASE CORONADO |
| Recipe: |
Deep fried cardomum and coconut flavoured pastry puffs. Delicious
INGREDIENTS
Two and a half cups plain flour
Six table spoons of sugar
One eighth of a packet coconut cream
Three quarters of a teas spoon coarsely ground cardamom
One table spoon desiccated coconut (optional)
One tea spoon butter
One tea spoon dried yeast
Oil for frying
Preparation time: approx. - fifteen minutes plus four hours (standing)
Cooking time: approx. - fifteen minutes
METHOD
Dissolve the coconut cream in a small amount of boiling water.
Bind together all the ingredients with the coconut cream paste into a very stiff dough.
Leave to rise in a warm place for at least four hours, or overnight if possible.
Knead the dough and roll out one third of an inch (one centimeter) thick.
Cut into required shapes and deep fry in hot oil.
Dunk each mandazi in hot oil until it puffs up, then turn over.
Fry to an even deep tan colour.
Drain onto kitchen paper.
Serve immediately on its own or with bharazi (chick peas in coconut). |
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