
Kenya / Snacks
Mandazi
Triangular doughnuts on coconut milk with cardamom, lightly sweet, for tea.
Ingredients
- Flour500 g
- Coconut milk250 ml
- Sugar80 g
- Dry yeast7 g
- Egg1
- Ground cardamom2 tsp
- Butter, melted50 g
- Oil for frying1 l
- Salt1/2 tsp
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Method 7 steps
Warm the coconut milk and dissolve the yeast in it with a spoon of sugar.
Mix the flour with the remaining sugar, the cardamom and the salt.
Work in the egg, melted butter and the coconut yeast mixture and knead a soft dough.
Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour, until doubled.
Divide the dough into four, rolling each piece into a round a centimetre thick.
Cut each round into four triangles and let them rest fifteen minutes.
Fry at 170 °C for two minutes a side, to a golden colour.




