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Traditional South African Koeksisters Recipe
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional south african koeksisters using 14 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional South African Koeksisters:
- Prepare Dough
- Get 2 cup Cake flour
- Prepare 2 tbsp Baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp Salt
- Make ready 1 large egg
- Prepare 4 tbsp Butter/margarine
- Make ready 1/2 cup Water
- Get 1 Oil for frying
- Prepare Syrup
- Get 4 1/2 cup Sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 stick Cinnamon/ ½tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Ground ger
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup Water
- Get 1/4 cup Lemon juice
Instructions to make Traditional South African Koeksisters:
- SYRUP - METHOD
- Prepare syrup day before. It needs to be very cold
- In a large pot, dissolve sugar in the water
- Add spices and lemon juice and bring to the boil
- Take off stove and leave to cool
- Place in fridge overnight
- DOUGH - METHOD
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together
- Rub in butter amd mix til pliable
- Add egg and mix
- Add water a little at a time
- Work dough well until no lumps. If sticky sprinkle a little flour and knead until dough will ball up
- Let dough rest at room temp for approx 3 hours under inverted mixing bowl
- TO PREPARE KOEKSISTERS
- Roll out dough. Thickness 5mm
- Cut into strips 6cm long.2cm wide
- Plait strips and pinch hard at ends
- Deep fry until golden brown
- Remove and drain quickly
- Dip in cold syrup
- The secret is to keep the syrup cold and the koeksisters hot. This way it will draw in just the right amount of syrup
- You can keep the syrup cold by keeping it in another container filled with ice water
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