Well back in the day there was no better way to wake up on a Saturday morning than to the smell of Mandazis getting fried up in the kitchen, some nice warm tea with milk and of course the cartoon shows like Winnie the pooh, Sonic the hedge hog and my all time favorite, Tom and Jerry.
With that said, lets fast forward to today where I'm all grown up and with a little bit of skill on how to prepare them. Take some flour, a mixing bowl, eggs, milk, sugar,lemon, magerine and baking powder and hope that my recipe works for you.
We will start with measuring 3 cups of flour onto a mixing bowl, and don't worry, it's not a must mixing bowls be silver. Glass and plastic also works as well.
Then to spice up your mandazi take a unripe lemon and grate its outer skin onto the flour. For this step you can use Iliki, Cinnamon or perhaps let your imagination run wild with Tea Masala or any other spice you would prefer. ( I personally love lemon)
Crack up your eggs
Toss them into the mixing bowl with your flour and lemon
Then add your Sugar, Baking powder, Margarine and soften it all with some milk as you knead it into dough
Then roll the dough out and spin it into a ball and cover with a wet cloth or alternatively put it in a plastic bag and toss it in the fridge
After an hour or so roll out the dough again , cut it into your favourite shapes, then fry up your shaped mandazis and there you have it.
These are the mandazis when done and
If you would want proof of how good they actually are ask Eva, her taste not only runs supreme in fashion (Eva in me) but she also enjoys good food!
