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Yovo Doko

Name: Yovo Doko
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Benin
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 5g Dry yeast; 60g Sugar; A pinch Salt; A pinch Nutmeg; 220ml Water; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Little balls of dough fried until puffy — Benin's sweet breakfast fried bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Yovo doko means 'foreigner's doughnut' in Fon, a popular little fried bread in Benin. A soft dough of flour, yeast, and sugar is scooped by hand into small pieces and fried. It's eaten at breakfast with porridge or as a snack, and sold in bags at stalls.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Beninese market in the morning, little round fried breads from a big pot are piled in a basket and bagged for sale.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Dry yeast 5g
Sugar 60g
Salt A pinch
Nutmeg A pinch
Water 220ml
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Add lukewarm water to the flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and nutmeg and mix into a smooth dough.
Let rise 1 hour until doubled.
Grip the dough in your hand and squeeze small pieces out between your thumb and forefinger.
Drop into 170°C oil and fry, rolling them, until golden.
Drain on a rack.

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