How to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Traditional South African Koeksisters
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook Traditional South African Koeksisters using 14 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Get to make Traditional South African Koeksisters:
- Dough
- 2 cup Cake flour
- 2 tbsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 large egg
- 4 tbsp Butter/margarine
- 1/2 cup Water
- 1 Oil for frying
- Syrup
- 4 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 1/2 stick Cinnamon/ ½tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Ground ginger
- 1 1/2 cup Water
- 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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