Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, traditional south african koeksisters. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Remove the pot from the stove and stir in the lemon juice and vanilla essence. Put the pot into the fridge. Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder thoroughly in a mixing bowl.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional south african koeksisters using 14 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional South African Koeksisters:
- Get Dough
- Take 2 cup Cake flour
- Prepare 2 tbsp Baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp Salt
- Take 1 large egg
- Take 4 tbsp Butter/margarine
- Prepare 1/2 cup Water
- Take 1 Oil for frying
- Get Syrup
- Take 4 1/2 cup Sugar
- Get 1 1/2 stick Cinnamon/ ½tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Ground ginger
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup Water
- Get 1/4 cup Lemon juice
South African cuisine is the result of a fusion of cultures that has given rise to a very wide variety of recipes and flavors. The Dutch, the Portuguese, the Italians and the French all have ruled the country and the Boers (inhabitants), and they have. A South African koeksisters recipe that shows you how to make traditional braided doughnuts that are sweet and literally oozing in sweet spiced syrup. A favorite sweet treat that you can commonly buy in South Africa, and a special taste of home for ex-pats around the world.
Steps to make Traditional South African Koeksisters:
- SYRUP - METHOD
- Prepare syrup day before. It needs to be very cold
- In a large pot, dissolve sugar in the water
- Add spices and lemon juice and bring to the boil
- Take off stove and leave to cool
- Place in fridge overnight
- DOUGH - METHOD
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together
- Rub in butter amd mix til pliable
- Add egg and mix
- Add water a little at a time
- Work dough well until no lumps. If sticky sprinkle a little flour and knead until dough will ball up
- Let dough rest at room temp for approx 3 hours under inverted mixing bowl
- TO PREPARE KOEKSISTERS
- Roll out dough. Thickness 5mm
- Cut into strips 6cm long.2cm wide
- Plait strips and pinch hard at ends
- Deep fry until golden brown
- Remove and drain quickly
- Dip in cold syrup
- The secret is to keep the syrup cold and the koeksisters hot. This way it will draw in just the right amount of syrup
- You can keep the syrup cold by keeping it in another container filled with ice water
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
A South African koeksisters recipe that shows you how to make traditional braided doughnuts that are sweet and literally oozing in sweet spiced syrup. A favorite sweet treat that you can commonly buy in South Africa, and a special taste of home for ex-pats around the world. A traditional South African treat, koeksisters are wickedly sweet and make for a delicious tea time treat. So roll up your sleeves, follow this easy recipe and get ready to work that dough! These much-loved South African traditional sticky spicy treats are so yummy!
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