Recipe: Perfect Crumbly mandazi

Crumbly mandazi. These simple donuts from East Africa, known as mandazi, have a hint of cardamom and can be I made the Mandazis on this recipe. I happened to have all the ingredients. Mandazi (Swahili: Mandazi, Maandazi), is a form of fried bread that originated on the Swahili Coast.

Can last for up to two weeks. Mandazi are pastries commonly found throughout East Africa that are typically served with tea and coffee. Mandazi is also known as Swahili Bun, Dahir Adani, Swahili coconut doughnut, mahamri/mamri (when made with coconut milk). You can have Crumbly mandazi using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Crumbly mandazi

1. You need 1 kg of self-raising flour.
2. Prepare 2 of eggs.
3. It's 5 tablespoons of sugar.
4. Prepare 500 ml of milk, cold or room temperature.
5. It's 1 tablespoon of margarine.
6. Prepare of Lemon zest (grated).
7. It's of Oil for frying.

Mandazi is a form of fried bread that originated on the Swahili coast. Mandazi is a popular snack in Kenya. I took the liberty to make these lemon mandazi because I noticed people would ask Creamy, sweet, perfect amount of coconut in every bite, no crumbly crust - these. Mandazi is one of the popular African dishes that you will find in the greater lakes of coastal regions of East Africa inhabited by the Swahili community.

Crumbly mandazi instructions

1. Mix the flour with sugar and the grated lemon zest.
2. Add in the margarine and mix until it forms crumbs.
3. Add in the eggs and mix well.
4. Gradually add milk while kneading your dough. It shouldn't be too soft or too hard.
5. Roll out the dough, cut into desired shapes then fry under low heat..
6. NB...after kneading the dough cook it immediately...don't cover it to rise.
7. Final product.

It is a dish that can be served as a breakfast with tea. Find mandazi stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. Mandazi are subtly sweet, making them more versatile than sugary, Western-style doughnuts. They're often used to sop up savory curries, such as pigeon peas cooked in coconut milk.