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Mikate

Name: Mikate
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: DR Congo
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 5g Dry yeast; 50g Sugar; A pinch Nutmeg; A pinch Salt; 200ml Water; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Balls of wheat dough fried — a sweet Congolese breakfast fried bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mikate is Lingala for bread, and in Congo it refers to doughnut-like fried balls of yeasted dough. Crisp outside and fluffy inside, they're eaten for breakfast with tea or coffee or as a snack, and sold one by one at roadside stalls.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Kinshasa roadside in the morning, a woman fries round breads in a big pot and sells them wrapped in paper to passersby.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Dry yeast 5g
Sugar 50g
Nutmeg A pinch
Salt A pinch
Water 200ml
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Add lukewarm water to the flour, yeast, sugar, nutmeg, and salt to make a soft dough.
Let rise 1 hour until doubled.
With oiled hands, roll into small balls.
Fry in 160°C oil, rolling them, until cooked through.
Drain on a rack.

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