Coconut Mandazi. This is the easiest recipe to get a soft mandazi/mahamri. Sooo yummmm you'll be making everyday. Go ahead, try it and let me know on the comments below!

Mandazi - an original east African doughnut recipe made of coconut and cardamom infused yeast dough. I add coconut flakes for an intense coconut flavor, and it tastes divine. Splash the oil over them to help them puff up. You can have Coconut Mandazi using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Coconut Mandazi

You need 500 g of all purpose flour.
It's 1/2 cup of desiccated coconut.
You need 300 ml of milk (you can add depending on consistency you want).
It's 100 g of sugar.
It's 30 g of margarine.
Prepare 25 g of baking powder.
You need of Vanilla essence.
You need of Sufficient oil for frying.

Mandazi (Swahili: Mandazi, Maandazi), is a form of fried bread that originated on the Swahili Coast. It is also known as bofrot or puff puff in Western African countries such as Ghana and Nigeria. This East African coconut bread is slightly sweet and has often been likened to doughnuts. It is available everywhere in East Africa; it is typical street food, mandazi is eaten at anytime.

Coconut Mandazi instructions

Have all your ingredients ready.
Sieve the flour together with baking powder and combine all dry ingredients.
Make well and add margarine and sugar/milk solution.
Knead till right consistency and cover for about an hour to allow dough to rise.
Later knead again and cut to desired shapes then fry.
Finished product.

Coconut Mandazi/Mahamri - Step by Step - Fauzia's Kitchen Fun. Sieve the flour, add in the yeast directly into it and the sugar and cardamon. Coconut Mandazi. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Soft Mini Mandzi - East African Doughnuts made with grated coconut, spiced with cardamon, nutmeg and fried to perfection. Mandazi, also known as the Swahili Bun or Swahili Coconut Doughnut, is a form of fried dough food/bread that originated on the Swahili Coast.