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How to Prepare Favorite Mandazi

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Bess Vega

Mandazi
Mandazi

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mandazi. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 (also known as Maandazi or Ndao and sometimes called Mahamri or Mamri) are East African donuts.

Mandazi is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mandazi is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mandazi using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mandazi:
  1. Make ready 2 kg self-raising flour
  2. Take 1/2 cup sugar
  3. Get 250 g blueband
  4. Take 3 eggs
  5. Make ready 1 tbs baking powder
  6. Make ready 1/2 litre milk
  7. Prepare oil for frying

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. In a round bowl place 1.5kg flour add the baking powder cinnamon 1/2of the sugar and mix
  2. Add the eggs and milk and blueband.start kneading as you add water.
  3. When the dough is ready place on a flat clean surface and flat using a roller upto 1.5cm
  4. Use a knife to cut into square shapes as you place the cooking oil in a pan for it to boil.
  5. Start placing the dough in the pan the mandazi cooks turn so that they can cook on both sides
  6. Continue until all the mandazis are ready then turn off the heat.

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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