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Great recipe for East African Breakfast Platter. #nonindian - This is a typical East African breakfast menu that are very popular. On this platter you will find MANDAZI, a deep fried doughnut which is the most favourite of all. It is generally served with tea or chai in the Swahili lingo.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have east african breakfast platter using 25 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make East African Breakfast Platter:
- Make ready For Mandazi / Mahamri (Doughnuts)
- Get 1 cup plain flour
- Prepare 2 tbsp butter
- Take pinch salt
- Prepare 3 tbsp powdered sugar
- Get 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 egg
- Make ready 1/4 tsp. cardamom powder
- Make ready as required warm milk
- Get as required oil to deep fry
- Get For Uji Wa Wimbi (Porridge):
- Prepare 3 tbsp. millet flour (I used Sorghum / Jowar flour)
- Take 2 + 1/2 cup water
- Take 2-3 tbsp. sugar / honey or to taste
- Get 1/4 tsp. cardamom powder
- Prepare For Fried Nduma (Arrowroot):
- Take 2-3 Arbi, boiled, peeled & cut into thick slices
- Prepare pinch salt
- Get pinch pepper or to taste
- Take 2 tbsp. oil to shallow fry
- Prepare For Fried Sweet Potato:
- Take 1 medium size sweet potato, boiled, peeled & cut into thick slices
- Make ready pinch salt
- Prepare pinch pepper powder or to taste
- Make ready 2 tbsp. oil to shallow fry
On this platter you will find MANDAZI, a deep fried doughnut which is the most favourite of all. It is generally served with tea or chai in the Swahili lingo. The other dish is UJI WA WIMBI, a porridge made of millet flour. Breakfast Food That East Africans Eat.
Instructions to make East African Breakfast Platter:
- Mandazi - Mix together flour and butter till it resembles bread crumbs. Then add all the other ingredients (except milk) and knead into a dough. Add milk if required. Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for 30 minutes.
- Divide the dough into two equal portions. Roll out each portion into a circle of 1/4" thickness. Cut into squares with a pizza cutter.
- Heat oil in a pan and deep fry in batches till till light golden in colour. Drain on a kitchen towel and dust with some powdered sugar. Enjoy for breakfast with a hot cup of tea / coffee.
- Uji Wa Wimbi - Bring 2 cups water to a boil. Meanwhile mix together millet flour and 1/2 cup water into a paste.
- When the water comes to a boil, add the sugar/ honey and cardamom powder. Simmer till the sugar dissolves.
- Then add the flour paste and continue to simmer on a low flame till it turns thick to a desired consistency. Switch off the flame and serve as breakfast, garnished with a pinch of cardamom powder.
- Nduma - Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the sliced arrowroot on both sides till they are light golden in colour. Drain and sprinkle salt and pepper. Your simple breakfast is ready.
- Fried Sweet Potato - Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the sliced sweet potato on both sides till they are light golden in colour. Drain and sprinkle salt and pepper. So Breakfast is ready.
East Africa is made up of multiple countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and the Seychelles. Despite the large number of countries, the diet and cuisine remain relatively similar across the region, largely due to the nomadic lifestyle. We each decided to try out the East African dinner platter with the chapatti flatbread, the eggplant and cauliflower and spicy lentils and with beef and goat (these are two separate platters see menu and pictures). Everything was delicious, light and not very oily. East Africans really know how to cook their veggies man.
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