Hello, I’m Laura. Today, I will show you a way to make traditional south african koeksisters recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a very simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Traditional South African Koeksisters Recipe
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional south african koeksisters using 14 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional South African Koeksisters:
- Prepare Dough
- Prepare 2 cup Cake flour
- Take 2 tbsp Baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp Salt
- Take 1 large egg
- Get 4 tbsp Butter/margarine
- Get 1/2 cup Water
- Prepare 1 Oil for frying
- Get Syrup
- Prepare 4 1/2 cup Sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 stick Cinnamon/ ½tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp Ground ger
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup Water
- Prepare 1/4 cup Lemon juice
Steps 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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