How I make Mandazi!!

Ingredients:

2 Cups of All purpose Flour (Plain wheat flour)
1/2 Cup of sugar (you may make it 3/4 Cup instead, for extra sweetness)
1 Tsp of Cardamon
2 Tsp of Yeast
3/4 Cups of Coconut milk
2 Tbsp oil
Oil for frying
Extra flour for kneading

Method:

Place 2 Cups Flour in your mixing bowl

 Heat up 2 tbsp of olive oil (or any cooking oil). Heat in a pan, microwave may be dangerous.

Add oil onto your flour. Mix the hot oil in your flour, with a spoon (be careful its hot)

Once mixed with spoon, start mixing the flour and oil with your fingers, breaking down the oil lumps.

Add 1 tsp Cardamon and mix well with spoon

Add 2 tsp yeast and mix well with spoon

Add Sugar and mix well with spoon. 

 Warm 3/4 cup of coconut oil for 1 minute in the microwave

Add Coconut Milk in Flour mixture, and mix well with spoon as it may be hot. Once mixed, proceed to using your hands to mix the flour in a dough.

Powder the surface or work board with flour, that you will use to knead your dough.

Start kneading the dough using your clean hands. You may add small amounts of flour as you knead if your dough is sticky. Do not add too much flour, you will find the dough becomes less sticky as your continue to knead.

Knead your dough for 10 minutes. It is important to knead your dough for 10 minutes to ensure soft mandazi.

Your dough should not be sticky at the end of kneading

Cover your dough, and leave it in a warm place for about three hours, to rise. I forgot to photograph my risen dough. It should be double the size of the original dough. 

Once risen, knead the dough for another 5 minutes and cut it into three parts.

The dough should be soft. 

Powder your surface or work board with flour, you will use to roll your dough, to help prevent stickiness.  Powder your rolling pin as well.

Start rolling one part at a time, into a thick (pizza like) round, about 1/2 inch thick.  (not too thin)

Cut into sections with a knife. You can use a cookie cutter if you want precise shapes.

Set your shapes aside for 15 minutes to rise, before frying.

Your dough cut outs should have risen and ready for frying.

Heat up oil for deep frying your mandazi over medium heat.

Fry a few mandazi at a time. Turn them around once they turn golden brown.

Place your mandazi over paper towel to drain the oil.

They are ready to eat!! Enjoy and let me know how your turned out.