Mandazi

09 July 2017

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Diet Type:Bread, Dessert, Side dish, Starter or snack
  • Mandazi.
    Mandazi. Anar Ladha

Healthy Hints

Don’t be misled by the lack of red traffic lights. You need to consider how you eat a food, what you eat it with, and how much you have. Experiment with whole grain flour, less sugar and shallow frying instead of deep frying.
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Ingredients

  • Preparation
    Cooking Time
    Serves
    20
    Medium

Ingredients

150 ml water

25 g coconut cream

300 g plain flour

6 tbsp sugar

¾ tsp cardamom, coarsely ground

1 tbsp desiccated coconut

1 tsp butter

1 tsp dried yeast

rapeseed (canola) oil, for frying

What does this chart mean?

Serving Weight 31 g
  • Calories142kcal
  • Protein1.6g
  • Fat7.5g
  • Saturated fat1.5g
  • Carbohydrate18.2g
  • Sugars (Total)6.6g
  • Fibre0.6g
  • Salt0.1g

Directions

1. Heat water in a medium sized saucepan and dissolve the coconut cream.
2. Mix together plain flour, the sugar, the cardamom, desiccated coconut and the coconut cream paste to form a very stiff dough.
3. Leave to rise in a warm place for at least 4 hours, or overnight if possible.
4. Knead the dough and roll out 0.8 cm thick.
5. Cut into required shapes, usually rectangles or triangles.
6. Deep fry to an even deep-tan colour, for approximately 20 minutes.
7. Drain onto kitchen paper.
8. Serve on its own or with bharazi (pigeon peas in coconut cream).

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