Recipe: Perfect Traditional South African Koeksisters

Traditional South African Koeksisters.

You can cook Traditional South African Koeksisters using 14 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Traditional South African Koeksisters

1. It’s of Dough.
2. Prepare 2 cup of Cake flour.
3. Prepare 2 tbsp of Baking powder.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of Salt.
5. It’s 1 large of egg.
6. Prepare 4 tbsp of Butter/margarine.
7. You need 1/2 cup of Water.
8. You need 1 of Oil for frying.
9. You need of Syrup.
10. Prepare 4 1/2 cup of Sugar.
11. Prepare 1 1/2 stick of Cinnamon/ ½tsp ground cinnamon.
12. You need 1/2 tsp of Ground ginger.
13. It’s 1 1/2 cup of Water.
14. Prepare 1/4 cup of Lemon juice.

Traditional South African Koeksisters step by step

1. SYRUP – METHOD.
2. Prepare syrup day before. It needs to be very cold.
3. In a large pot, dissolve sugar in the water.
4. Add spices and lemon juice and bring to the boil.
5. Take off stove and leave to cool.
6. Place in fridge overnight.
7. DOUGH – METHOD.
8. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
9. Rub in butter amd mix til pliable.
10. Add egg and mix.
11. Add water a little at a time.
12. Work dough well until no lumps. If sticky sprinkle a little flour and knead until dough will ball up.
13. Let dough rest at room temp for approx 3 hours under inverted mixing bowl.
14. TO PREPARE KOEKSISTERS.
15. Roll out dough. Thickness 5mm.
16. Cut into strips 6cm long.2cm wide.
17. Plait strips and pinch hard at ends.
18. Deep fry until golden brown.
19. Remove and drain quickly.
20. Dip in cold syrup.
21. The secret is to keep the syrup cold and the koeksisters hot. This way it will draw in just the right amount of syrup.
22. You can keep the syrup cold by keeping it in another container filled with ice water.