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Koeksister

Name: Koeksister
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: South Africa
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 1 tbsp Baking Powder; 30g Butter; 150ml Milk; A pinch Salt; 400g Sugar; 250ml Water; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; 1 Cinnamon stick; 1 piece Ginger; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Braided dough fried and plunged into cold syrup — a sweet fried treat of South Africa.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Koeksisters are a traditional Afrikaner sweet: dough is braided, fried, and plunged straight into ice-cold syrup. They're crisp outside with syrup oozing from inside. The Cape Malay community has a similar round version, the koesister, coated in cinnamon or coconut.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a home kitchen on a Sunday morning, freshly fried koeksisters sizzle as they sink into cold syrup while children look on.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

All-purpose flour 300g
Baking Powder 1 tbsp
Butter 30g
Milk 150ml
Salt A pinch
Sugar 400g
Water 250ml
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Cinnamon stick 1
Ginger 1 piece
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the sugar, water, cinnamon stick, and sliced ginger over heat, add the lemon juice, cool, and chill in the fridge.
Rub the butter into the flour, baking powder, and salt, add the milk, bring together, and rest 30 minutes.
Roll the dough 1cm thick, cut into 4×8cm strips, and cut each into 3 strands, leaving one end attached.
Braid and press the ends together.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Dip straight from the oil into the cold syrup, leave about 1 minute, and lift out.

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