Mandazi is an East African Snack or dessert originating fro the Coastal region in Kenya. It is a fried dough kind of dessert that is made by kneading flour mixed with yeast or baking powder, Milk or Coconut Milk and Butter or vegetable Oil. It is then fried in cooking oil until golden brown. You can add spices of your choice and then once cooked you can have it with Tea, Juice or even on its own. Once cooked it can keep for a week in an airtight container and can be rewarmed in the microwave for a couple of seconds. Find this Mandazi recipe on my cooking blog plus other delicious simple foods that you can try out.
Ingredients
1 Cup Milk
1 1/2 Tablespoon Cinnamon
1 1/2 Cups Vegetable Oil for frying
1 Tablespoon Nutmeg
2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
3 Tablespoon Margarine/Butter
4 Tablespoon Sugar
Pinch Salt
2 Eggs
Method
-Sift Flour into a large bowl. Add Baking powder. Add in the
Margarine/Butter and rub with your hands until mixture resembles breadcrumbs
-Add Sugar, Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Mix well and set aside
-Mix the Milk and Eggs together until well combined.
-Pour the Milk-Egg mixture into the dry ingredients
-Knead the dough with your hands until it has become firm
but still soft
-Cover the dough with clean kitchen cloth and let rest for
30 minutes in a warm place
-After the dough has rested and poofed, take it from the
bowl and place it on a lightly floured surface
-Cut the dough into four equal parts
-Take one of the dough and roll in out into a circle. The
thickness should be 1/4 inch, but you can roll thinner or thicker depending on
your preference
-Use a Glass, Plastic Cup, Cookie Cutter to cut into
suitable sizes or shapes
-I used the rim of a Glass to cut out round shapes of the
Mandazi
-Cut the circles out from the rolled out dough
-The excess pieces of the dough set aside as you will roll
them again and cut out the shapes
-Repeat the process of cutting the shapes until all the
dough is finished
-Heat the oil in a heavy bottomed deep cooking pan
-Let the oil heat until it is very hot. If the oil has not
heated enough the Mandazi will absorb a lot of oil while cooking
-Cook the Mandazi until golden brown
-Remove the Mandazi from the oil, shake the ladle a bit to
let excess oil drop back into the pan
-Put the Mandazi in a large bowl on kitchen paper to drain
out excess oil, cover to keep warm until you have cooked all the Mandazi
-You never waste any Mandazi dough. When you are cutting out
the round shapes, there will be the outside shapes that remain
-You can keep adding to the dough until you finish cutting
them or you can just leave them as you cut and cook them on their own
-Fry the remaining pieces at the end
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