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Magwinya

Name: Magwinya
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Botswana
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 6g Dry yeast; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 260ml Water; To taste Oil for frying; To taste Jam

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Fluffy round fried bread — Botswana's breakfast and roadside snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Magwinya are round fried breads eaten in Botswana and across southern Africa: yeasted dough is rolled into balls and fried until puffy. They're eaten for breakfast with tea or filled with jam, cheese, or fried mince. They're a staple of vendors at bus terminals and markets.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a bus terminal in a Botswana town, a woman lifts fried breads from a big pot into a basket and sells them to travelers in paper bags.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 6g
Sugar 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 260ml
Oil for frying To taste
Jam To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and lukewarm water and knead 10 minutes.
Let rise 1 hour until doubled.
Roll into golf-ball-size balls and rest 15 minutes.
Fry in 160°C oil, rolling them, until cooked through.
Serve with jam.

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