Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mahamri with coconut. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This recipe is one that is very popular in Kenya and Tanzania, especially amongst the people who live in the coastal towns of both these countries. Mahamri is a slightly sweet famous breakfast snack that you can get on the road side in most East It is flavoured lightly with some cardamom powder and gets its richness from the coconut milk used to. Mahamri happens to be a street snack and the main breakfast dish.
Mahamri with Coconut is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Mahamri with Coconut is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mahamri with coconut using 9 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mahamri with Coconut:
- Get All purpose wheat flour
- Get coconut milk
- Take coconut cream
- Make ready warm milk
- Take ground cardamon
- Prepare sugar
- Take instant yeast
- Prepare sugar
- Take Oil for deep frying
Kenyan Mahamri look like diminutive, bulging square or triangular dough which is fried until they attain the golden brown hue. Mahamri (also sometimes called mandazi) is a popular coast dish common at the Kenyan coast and in Tanzania. They are a spongy and sweet-tasting golden brown doughnut of either triangular or square. This East African coconut bread is slightly sweet and has often been likened to doughnuts.
Steps to make Mahamri with Coconut:
- Mix the 1/4 cup of warm water with the yeast, a pinch of sugar, a pinch of flour.
- Set aside and leave it to rise as you proceed with preparing the dough
- Mix the flour, sugar and cardamon together
- Add the coconut cream
- Add Coconut milk
- Add the warm milk
- Knead together and add your yeast (already risen by now) and knead again
- Cover with cling film/ cloth and set aside in a warm place for 3- 8 hours to rise(leaving overnight works best).
- Check if dough has doubled or increased in volume to confirm effects of yeast
- Divide into small portions 6-8 (you can make them more proportional if dividing it into triangles)
- Roll each portion and cut into different shapes as desired
- Once ready, you can leave for 30more mins to rise again or proceed to deep fry till golden brown
- Let it to cool and serve with beverage of choice
It is available everywhere in East Africa; it is typical street food, mandazi is eaten at anytime. These golden brown puffy triangles are so delicious you won't stop eating them! This process would also result in a sourdough version of mahamri. These useful spices can be used to cook so many different meals! For mahamri, yeast is the rising agent of choice.
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