Mandazi

Name: Mandazi
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 250 g self raising flour; 1 tea spoon cardamom; 1/2 glass sugar (50g); 200 ml water; Cooking oil

Mwende @cook_7588660

This is cardamom flavoured mandazi. I hope you like it.

Mwende @cook_7588660

This is cardamom flavoured mandazi. I hope you like it.

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Ingredients

5 servings

250 gself raising flour
1tea spoon cardamom
1/2 glasssugar (50g)
200 mlwater
Cooking oil

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Steps

1

Mix your flour, sugar and cardamom and stir.
2

Add water and mix with your hands untill the desired texture then leave the dough for about 30mins.
3

Poor some flour on your table or flat surface and spread your dough on the flat surface. Cut into straight strips(horizontal) then cut into diagonals to get perfect triangles.
4

Set your cooking oil in a pan and preheat to boiling point then add your triangle shaped dough pieces to the oil.
5

When the edges turn brown turn to cook the other side(top side). They are cooked when they have a perfect brown colour.
6

When ready pick the cooked mandazi from the oil and put in a container to cool and drip extra oil.
7

Pack the mandazi in paper bags while still warm to keep them moist to eat at any time.
8

Note: The time for deep frying varies because the cooking oil temperature changes after every cook.