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Vetkoek

Name: Vetkoek
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: South Africa
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 250ml Water; To taste Oil for frying; 300g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 2 tsp Curry Powder; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Snack

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Fried rounds of yeasted dough split and filled with curried mince or jam — South Africa's fried bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Vetkoek means 'fat cake,' a simple fried bread dough. It's split and filled with curried mince, or with jam, honey, or cheese. Handed down as Dutch home cooking, it's now enjoyed across all communities as a street-stall and township snack.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a winter afternoon in a farmhouse kitchen, freshly fried vetkoek pile up as the family fills them with whatever they like.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 250ml
Oil for frying To taste
Ground Beef 300g
Onion 1
Curry Powder 2 tsp
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix and knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and lukewarm water, and let rise 1 hour.
Divide into 8, shape into balls, and rest 15 minutes.
Fry in 170°C oil for 8–10 minutes, turning occasionally, until golden.
Heat oil in a frying pan, sauté the onion, add the ground beef, curry powder, tomato paste, and 100ml water, reduce, and season with salt.
Split the fried breads horizontally.
Fill with the curried mince.

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