Koeksisters - Easy to do and Very moist even after warming up leftovers the next day!. Today I am sharing this Koeksisters! A quick and easy dinner that is ready in under 35 minutes! 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. Koeksisters are small crispy donuts that are popular in South Africa. They are braided and fried, then soaked in a fragrant sugar syrup. Koeksisters - very addictive cake-like bite-sized doughnuts with a spicy cinnamon sugar , a much less traditional compared to the braided koeksisters. Perfect as snacks and even for breakfast!
Koeksisters are tasty doughnuts drenched in syrup that are popular in South Africa.
There are two versions of this yummy dessert.
A traditional South African treat, koeksisters are wickedly sweet and make for a delicious tea time treat.
You can cook Koeksisters with 12 Ingredients and 4 steps. See the following guide!
Ingredients for Koeksisters:
- for the dough:.
- 4 cups flour.
- 2 teaspoons instant yeast.
- 4 tablespoons sugar.
- 1 teaspoon baking powder.
- 1 teaspoon salt.
- 2 cups lukewarm water.
- Oil for deep frying.
- for the syrup:.
- 2 cups sugar.
- 1/2 cup water.
- 1/4 cup lemon juice.
Remove the koeksisters from the syrup and allow the excess syrup to drip off. From Wikibooks, open books for an open world. Jump to navigation Jump to A koeksister is a piece of dough, usually in the shape of a plait, that is deep fried in oil and then. Koeksisters are prepared by frying plaited dough strips in oil, then submersing the hot fried dough into ice cold sugar syrup.
Step by step how to cook Koeksisters:
- Place all the ingredients for the dough into a large bowl and mix well to combine. Make a well in the middle, pour in lukewarm water, little bit at a time. Using hands, knead with hands, combining all the ingredients into a soft dough. Keep kneading for 15 minutes. Cover with a cloth and leave to rise to double the size..
- Meanwhile, in a saucepan, pour together the sugar, water and lemon juice and melt to medium heat until all the sugar has dissolved, and it's in a syrupy consistency. Remove from heat and place in the refrigerator to cool..
- Heat oil in a large saucepan. Once dough has risen, roll it out on a floured surface and cut strips of required size. For each koeksister, plait 3 strips and pinch the ends to secure. Repeat until all the dough is used..
- Deep fry the plaited dough into hot oil, turning them until golden brown. Place on a blotting paper. Dip each one into the syrup and place on a wiring rack to drip off syrup. They should look lovely shiny..
Koeksisters have a golden crunchy crust and liquid syrup centre. Koeksisters, Delicious, Crispe, Juicy, South Australia, Adelaide. Koeksisters are dough twists that have been deep-fried and dipped in a special syrup. Here is a great koeksisters recipe sent to us Making South African "Koeksisters": Here I am going to show you how to make South African "koeksisters" (pronounced cook-sister and meaning cake sister). Here's the ultimate koeksister recipe, from the official MasterChef South Africa cookbook.