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Namibian Fat Cakes

Name: Namibian Fat Cakes
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Namibia
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 6g Dry yeast; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 250ml Water; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Plump round fried bread — a staple snack at Namibia's markets and roadsides.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fat cakes are round fried breads eaten widely across southern Africa, including Namibia: yeasted dough is rolled into balls and fried until puffy. In Oshiwambo they're also called omagwiya. Sold at markets, roadsides, and in front of schools, they're eaten for breakfast or snacks, sometimes filled with jam, cheese, or fried mince.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a roadside in a Namibian town, a woman fries round breads in a big pot of oil and sells them in paper bags to commuters.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 6g
Sugar 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 250ml
Oil for frying 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 balls a bit larger than a ping-pong ball and rest 15 minutes.
Fry in 160°C oil, rolling them, until cooked through.
Drain on a rack.

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