Vetkoek

Ingredients

• 6¾ cups Flour (all-purpose flour)
• 2 teaspoons Salt
• 2 tablespoons Sugar
• 1 packet Yeast
• Lukewarm water
• Cooking oil (for frying)

How to make the dough

• Mix sugar and yeast with some lukewarm water and leave to foam.
• Sift flour and salt.
• Pour yeast in flour and knead.
• Keep adding water and knead until you have a consistency like a bread dough.
• Leave the dough in the bowl and cover the bowl with a cloth.
• Leave the dough to rise for about 45 – 60 minutes until it is about double its original size.

How to make the vetkoek

• Pour the cooking oil into a frying pan to have about 3 or 4 cm of oil in the pan. Heat the oil to about 375°F (200°C).
• Divide the dough into balls about the size of a tennis ball.
• Flatten the dough until it is about 3 centimetres thick and about the size of your palm.
• Place two or three pieces of the flattened dough at a time into the oil. Fry each side until golden brown.

Serve with savoury mince, cheese or jam. Yum, yum, yum!