Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mandazi. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mandazi is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Mandazi is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Heat oil in a deep-fryer or large saucepan over medium heat. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, cardamom, and salt. Make a well in the center, then use a rubber spatula to mix in the egg and coconut milk until the dough comes together. Mandazi are any doughnut-lover's dream come true: fluffy, hollow on the inside, mildly sweet in flavor, and crisp on the outside.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook mandazi using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mandazi:

1. Prepare 1 cup self raising flour
2. Prepare 1 tablespoon sugar
3. Prepare 1 tablespoon margarine
4. Make ready I teaspoon of vanilla essence
5. Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
6. Prepare 1 Lemon
7. Get Warm water

Mandazi and Chai is the ultimate breakfast in many Kenyan homes. Growing up in Kenya , it was very common to dunk a warm Mandazi, made fresh from the local bakery, in a hot cup of Chai (tea). My memories of Chai and Mandazi take me all the way back to my grandmother's kitchen during our school breaks. Mandazi is a nice way to introduce you to the joys of East African street food, a spicy, airy yeast doughnut dough made with coconut milk, flavored with cardamom and grated fresh coconut or coconut flakes.

Steps to make Mandazi:

1. Sieve your flour and put in a basin
2. Take the margarine and rub it on the flour until the mixture looks like small particles
3. Make a hole at the centre, add sugar, salt, grate lemon zest, vanilla essence.
4. Add water at the centre as you mix gradually so the salt and sugar mix thoroughly.
5. Knead gradually until soft, cover with a foil for 10mins.
6. Cut to your desired shape and deep in hot oil.
7. Serve.

My memories of Chai and Mandazi take me all the way back to my grandmother's kitchen during our school breaks. Mandazi is a nice way to introduce you to the joys of East African street food, a spicy, airy yeast doughnut dough made with coconut milk, flavored with cardamom and grated fresh coconut or coconut flakes. It can be made with yeast or baking powder. I love the depth of flavor that yeast adds to dough and my first choice is yeast; unless you. The Original Mandazi, the Soft Mini Mandazi and the baked Mandazi.

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