Mandazi

Ingredients

Quantities for 8 servings.

• 500 g Flour
• 250 ml Coconut milk
• 80 g Sugar
• 7 g Dry yeast
• 1 piece Egg
• 2 tsp Ground cardamom
• 50 g Butter, melted
• 1 l Oil for frying
• 0.5 tsp Salt

Method

1. Warm the coconut milk and dissolve the yeast in it with a spoon of sugar.
2. Mix the flour with the remaining sugar, the cardamom and the salt.
3. Work in the egg, melted butter and the coconut yeast mixture and knead a soft dough.
4. Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour, until doubled.
5. Divide the dough into four, rolling each piece into a round a centimetre thick.
6. Cut each round into four triangles and let them rest fifteen minutes.
7. Fry at 170 °C for two minutes a side, to a golden colour.