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Main Ingredients | Refined flour, Corn meal |
Cuisine | South African |
Course | Snacks and Starters |
Prep Time | 41-50 minutes |
Cook time | 16-20 minutes |
Serve | 4 |
Taste | Sweet |
Level of Cooking | Moderate |
Others | Non-Veg |
Ingredients
- 1½ cups refined flour
- ½ cup cornmeal
- 2½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons castor sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 inch cinnamon stick
- 1 inch ginger finely chopped
- ½ lemon
- Oil for greasing + deep frying
Method
- Take refined flour in a large bowl, add corn meal, baking powder, salt and castor sugar and whisk well.
- Break the egg into the bowl, add milk and knead into soft dough. Add 2 tbsps butter and knead till the butter is well incorporated. Cover with a damp muslin cloth and rest for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat sugar and 1 cup water in a deep pan. Add cinnamon, and ginger and squeeze the juice of ½ lemon into the pan. Discard the scum and stir till the sugar dissolves. Cook till the syrup reaches one-string consistency. Strain into a bowl and refrigerate till chilled.
- Divide the dough into 12 equal portions. To make each koeksister, take 3 portions and shape each into a thin long cylinder. Lay them side by side, press them together on one end braid them and pinch the other end.
- Heat sufficient oil in a kadai, gently slide in the dough braids and deep fry till golden brown and crisp. Drain on absorbent paper.
- Dip these koeksisters while they are hot into the chilled sugar syrup. Drain them and place them on a cooling rack.
- Transfer them into a serving bowl and serve.
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