Koeksister & Semolina Pudding
Koeksister & Semolina Pudding

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Traditional Koeksisters - A traditional South African sticky donut treat that's deliciously sweet, sticky, crunchy and drenched in syrup, laced with cinnamon, lemon and ginger. Koeksister is a sweet South African snack with a sticky appearance. It is prepared by frying braided dough strips in oil, then dunking them into a cold sugary syrup.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have koeksister & semolina pudding using 29 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Koeksister & Semolina Pudding:
  1. Take 1 cup All purpose flour (Koeksister Dessert For Dough Preparation )
  2. Prepare 1 tablespoon Sorghum/Jowar (Flour)
  3. Take 1 pinch Baking powder
  4. Get 2 1/2 teaspoon Vegetable Oil
  5. Take 1 pinch Salt
  6. Make ready As required Water
  7. Get For Sugar Syrup
  8. Get 1 cup Sugar
  9. Get 2 drops Vanilla essence
  10. Get 1/2 cup Water
  11. Make ready 1 Cinnamon Stick
  12. Get 1 pinch Nutmeg powder
  13. Take oil to fry
  14. Make ready 1 tablespoon Honey
  15. Get as required sugar syrup
  16. Prepare For Garnishing –
  17. Make ready 1 cup Roasted Semolina
  18. Make ready For Semolina Pudding
  19. Prepare 2 tablespoon Roasted Vermicelli
  20. Make ready 2 tablespoon Grated Carrot
  21. Prepare 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder
  22. Prepare 1 cup Almond milk
  23. Prepare Raisins
  24. Make ready Almonds
  25. Get Grated carrot
  26. Get 1.5 cups Sugar
  27. Prepare 3/4 cup Clarified butter/ Ghee
  28. Get 2 cups Water
  29. Get For Garnishing

This recipe was one that my grandmother used to make when I was a little girl. See great recipes for Orange glazed Koeksisters too! Making South African "Koeksisters": Here I am going to show you how to make South African "koeksisters" (pronounced cook-sister and meaning cake sister). This recipe for Koeksisters (cake sisters), or South African donuts, calls for soaking the cakes in a lemony ginger syrup.

Steps to make Koeksister & Semolina Pudding:
  1. For Koeksister Dessert – Sift all purpose flour, Jowar flour, baking powder and salt.
  2. Now Prepare the dough by adding hot vegetable oil, water. Note that the dough must be stiff by kneading it well.
  3. Keep the dough in the refrigerator for 15 minutes by covering it with a thin cloth.
  4. Meanwhile, prepare sugar syrup by combining the sugar and water in a saucepan which is over a medium-high heat. Also place a cinnamon stick in this heating mixture. Add a pinch nutmeg powder, vanilla essence to this.
  5. Stir it well until it turns into a string consistency. Now, remove from the flame and keep it aside.
  6. Make a chapati of thickness 1 inch and cut it carefully into 3 thin strips (but not through the top). The ends on the top must be Pinched together. Now press the cut ends together firmly. Braid it into plaits. Fry them in oil till it turns golden brown.
  7. Immerse the prepared plaits into the sugar syrup for 2 minutes. Garnish the plaits with honey.
  8. For Semolina Pudding (Another Dessert) – Take a saucepan, pour water, almond milk and boil it.
  9. Add vermicelli, semolina and grated carrot and let it cook for sometime.
  10. Once it is cooked, add sugar, cardamom powder and clarified butter. Stir well until it is thoroughly cooked.
  11. Garnish with ghee roasted raisins, almonds and carrots. Refrigerate for 15 mins & serve chilled.

Koeksisters are very rich and are usually served as a special treat or kept for festive occasions. Making koeksisters is time-consuming and labour-intensive (another reason why it is not often made. Here's the ultimate koeksister recipe, from the official MasterChef South Africa cookbook. Koeksisters have a golden crunchy crust and liquid syrup centre, are very sticky and sweet, and taste like Popular brands include Ouma Rooi Koeksisters, whose founder won the Huletts Koeksister. A koeksister (or koe'sister) derives from the Dutch word koekje, which translates to "cookie".

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