Eggless African Donuts- Fried Fritters
 
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: African
Serves: 20
Ingredients
  • ⅓ cup warm water
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 2 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast (1 oz sachet)
  • 4 cups all purpose flour (500g or ½ kg)
  • 1 cup light coconut milk or if you prefer just milk
  • 3 tablespoons butter - melted
  • ¼ cup condensed milk
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • Oil for frying - canola oil or vegetable oil will work well here.
  • ⅓ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp yeast
  • 1 tbsp cold butter
  • 100 ml or ½ cup milk
  • 1 inch sliced fresh ginger
  • 5 cardamom pods
Instructions
  1. In a kitchenaid mixer, add warm water, it should be about 110 degrees.
  2. Add the yeast to the water along with sugar and let it rest for 2 minutes. Add the salt, condensed milk, coconut milk and mix very well. Finally, add in the flour and mix . Add the butter and let it work for about 3-5 minutes. You can mix with a wooden ladle too. Let it come to a form a dough. Cover the dough with towel and let it rise in a warm place for about 1 hour until doubled in size.
  3. Punch down dough to deflate then place on a floured board and cut into 24 equal pieces. (I start off by cutting the dough into four. Then cutting each piece into two twice to form 8 pieces. Then I cut every 1 of the eight pieces into 3. That makes 24 pieces.)
  4. Take one piece and roll out into a 13-inch braid. Press the ends together to seal them. Place the braided doughnut on a large tray on a wax paper. Repeat process with the rest of the dough.
  5. Let the twisted doughnuts rise for about twenty minutes.
  6. Let the oil heat up to about 350 degrees F or for about 8-10 minutes then turn the heat down to medium-low. Place in the twisted doughnuts to fry being careful not to overcrowd the pan.
  7. Once the doughnuts turn golden brown on one side, flip to the other side and let them cook. Once the other side is golden brown, remove and place on paper towel to absorb excess oil. They take about 4 minutes total to cook.
  8. In a baking tray, take sugar. Coat the hot doughnuts immediately and put it on a rack.
Notes
If the braids are too hard for you to form, simply form the doughnuts into balls and let them rise again as you would with the twists before frying. Note that if you form them into balls, they will take a few more minutes to cook thoroughly. Or just twist them.
Recipe by Food Fashion Party at https://www.foodfashionparty.com/2020/12/19/eggless-south-african-donuts/