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Gâteau Patate

Name: Gâteau Patate
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Mauritius
Ingredients: 2 Sweet potato; 100g All-purpose flour; 80g Shredded Coconut; 60g Sugar; 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder; 4 tbsp Water; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Sweet potato dough wrapped around coconut and fried — Mauritius's half-moon sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Gâteau patate is a traditional Mauritian snack: boiled, mashed sweet potato is mixed with flour into a dough, wrapped around coconut cooked sweet with sugar and cardamom, shaped into half-moons, and fried. Crisp outside and soft and sweet inside, it's a simple treat made at home and in sweet shops.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Mauritian afternoon, a grandmother wraps white coconut filling in sweet potato dough in the kitchen and hands her grandchild a freshly fried half-moon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Sweet potato 2
All-purpose flour 100g
Shredded Coconut 80g
Sugar 60g
Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
Water 4 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil, peel, and mash the sweet potatoes and mix in the flour to make a dough.
Cook the coconut, sugar, water, and cardamom in a pot, stirring, until dry.
Divide the dough into 12, flatten each into a round in your palm, and top with coconut.
Fold into half-moons and press the edges with a fork.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.

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