How to Make Any-night-of-the-week East African Breakfast Platter
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have East African Breakfast Platter using 25 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
#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. The other dish is UJI WA WIMBI, a porridge made of millet flour. Next comes NDUMA (Arrowroot) & SWEET POTATO, that are boiled and shallow fried. So the locals generally start their day with either of these dishes or as preferred. All in all a healthy breakfast to kick start a day.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Prepare to make East African Breakfast Platter:
- For Mandazi / Mahamri (Doughnuts)
- 1 cup plain flour
- 2 tbsp butter
- pinch salt
- 3 tbsp powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1/4 tsp. cardamom powder
- as required warm milk
- as required oil to deep fry
- For Uji Wa Wimbi (Porridge):
- 3 tbsp. millet flour (I used Sorghum / Jowar flour)
- 2 + 1/2 cup water
- 2-3 tbsp. sugar / honey or to taste
- 1/4 tsp. cardamom powder
- For Fried Nduma (Arrowroot):
- 2-3 Arbi, boiled, peeled & cut into thick slices
- pinch salt
- pinch pepper or to taste
- 2 tbsp. oil to shallow fry
- For Fried Sweet Potato:
- 1 medium size sweet potato, boiled, peeled & cut into thick slices
- pinch salt
- pinch pepper powder or to taste
- 2 tbsp. oil to shallow fry
Steps 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.
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