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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Prepare the syrup a day before (it needs to be very cold). | 2. Dissolve sugar in the water. | 3. Add the spices and lemon juice to this and boil together. Leave the syrup cool in the fridge overnight. | 4. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together. | 5. Rub in the butter and mix until pliable. | 6. Mix this with the egg and water (adding the water a little at a time). | 7. Work the dough well. If the dough appears to be lumpy and sticky, continue to work the dough until it will ball up. | 8. Let the dough rest at room temperature for about three hours (under an inverted mixing bowl). | 9. Roll out the dough (thickness 5mm). | 10. Cut the dough into strips of 6cm long, 2cm wide. | 11. Cut each of these strips into three strips (not all the way through, leave the strips connected at the top). | 12. Plat each strip, pinch together at the end of the strip. | 13. Deep fry until golden brown. | 14. Remove and drain quickly – dip the hot koeksisters in the cold syrup (that was stored in the fridge up to now). | 15. The secret is to keep the syrup cold and the koeksisters hot, this way it will draw just the right amount of syrup. | 16. You can keep the syrup cold by keeping the syrup bowl in another container filled with iced water. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
cake flour	2	cups		991.88	213.8022	22.468000000000004	2.3564
baking powder	2	tablespoons		14.628	7.6452	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
butter	4	tablespoons		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8
water	1/2	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
sugar	1			805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0
cinnamon	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
ginger	1/2	teaspoon	ground	0.8	0.1777	0.0182	0.0075
water	1 1/2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
lemon	1			1.2808	0.4116	0.0486	0.0132

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.