Koeksister & Semolina Pudding
Koeksister & Semolina Pudding

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, koeksister & semolina pudding. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Koeksister & Semolina Pudding is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Koeksister & Semolina Pudding is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Traditional Koeksisters - A traditional South African sticky donut treat that's deliciously sweet, sticky, crunchy and drenched in syrup, laced with cinnamon, lemon and ginger. Koeksisters - very addictive cake-like bite-sized doughnuts with a spicy cinnamon sugar , a much less traditional compared to the braided koeksisters. Perfect as snacks and even for breakfast.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have koeksister & semolina pudding using 29 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Koeksister & Semolina Pudding:
  1. Take 1 cup All purpose flour (Koeksister Dessert For Dough Preparation )
  2. Make ready 1 tablespoon Sorghum/Jowar (Flour)
  3. Get 1 pinch Baking powder
  4. Get 2 1/2 teaspoon Vegetable Oil
  5. Take 1 pinch Salt
  6. Prepare As required Water
  7. Take For Sugar Syrup
  8. Make ready 1 cup Sugar
  9. Take 2 drops Vanilla essence
  10. Make ready 1/2 cup Water
  11. Take 1 Cinnamon Stick
  12. Prepare 1 pinch Nutmeg powder
  13. Prepare oil to fry
  14. Make ready 1 tablespoon Honey
  15. Prepare as required sugar syrup
  16. Take For Garnishing –
  17. Get 1 cup Roasted Semolina
  18. Take For Semolina Pudding
  19. Prepare 2 tablespoon Roasted Vermicelli
  20. Take 2 tablespoon Grated Carrot
  21. Take 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder
  22. Take 1 cup Almond milk
  23. Prepare Raisins
  24. Take Almonds
  25. Make ready Grated carrot
  26. Make ready 1.5 cups Sugar
  27. Make ready 3/4 cup Clarified butter/ Ghee
  28. Get 2 cups Water
  29. Prepare For Garnishing

These are called koeksisters, but are not to be confused with the traditional South African, Dutch style plaited koeksister! This recipe was one that my grandmother used to make when I was a little girl. Remove the koeksisters from the syrup and allow the excess syrup to drip off. See great recipes for Orange glazed Koeksisters too!

Instructions to make Koeksister & Semolina Pudding:
  1. For Koeksister Dessert – Sift all purpose flour, Jowar flour, baking powder and salt.
  2. Now Prepare the dough by adding hot vegetable oil, water. Note that the dough must be stiff by kneading it well.
  3. Keep the dough in the refrigerator for 15 minutes by covering it with a thin cloth.
  4. Meanwhile, prepare sugar syrup by combining the sugar and water in a saucepan which is over a medium-high heat. Also place a cinnamon stick in this heating mixture. Add a pinch nutmeg powder, vanilla essence to this.
  5. Stir it well until it turns into a string consistency. Now, remove from the flame and keep it aside.
  6. Make a chapati of thickness 1 inch and cut it carefully into 3 thin strips (but not through the top). The ends on the top must be Pinched together. Now press the cut ends together firmly. Braid it into plaits. Fry them in oil till it turns golden brown.
  7. Immerse the prepared plaits into the sugar syrup for 2 minutes. Garnish the plaits with honey.
  8. For Semolina Pudding (Another Dessert) – Take a saucepan, pour water, almond milk and boil it.
  9. Add vermicelli, semolina and grated carrot and let it cook for sometime.
  10. Once it is cooked, add sugar, cardamom powder and clarified butter. Stir well until it is thoroughly cooked.
  11. Garnish with ghee roasted raisins, almonds and carrots. Refrigerate for 15 mins & serve chilled.

This recipe for Koeksisters (cake sisters), or South African donuts, calls for soaking the cakes in a lemony ginger syrup. Making South African "Koeksisters": Here I am going to show you how to make South African "koeksisters" (pronounced cook-sister and meaning cake sister). Koeksisters are very rich and are usually served as a special treat or kept for festive occasions. Making koeksisters is time-consuming and labour-intensive (another reason why it is not often made. Koeksisters have a golden crunchy crust and liquid syrup centre, are very sticky and sweet, and taste like Popular brands include Ouma Rooi Koeksisters, whose founder won the Huletts Koeksister.

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