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Vetkoek Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Combine the bread flour, salt and instant yeast in a large mixing bowl.
  • Mix water 2tbsp+1 tsp oil, vinegar and sugar together.
  • Add to dry ingredients.
  • Mix well.
  • Knead for at least 10 minutes until dough is smooth and elastic but still fairly slack.
  • Remove the required amount of dough from the bowl and freeze the rest in a container with an air-tight lid.
  • Cover remaining sough with a sheet of greased plastic.
  • Leave in a warm place to rise until double in bulk.
  • Shape the dough into fairly small vetkoeke (they increase in size when fried.).
  • Deepfry until golden brown outside and cooked inside.
  • Serve with sweet or savoury as main meal or snack.
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  • DetroitTokyo 12 years ago
    About how long do you let the dough rise? For the frozen portion, do you thaw it in the fridge and then let it rise?
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  • liezel 14 years ago
    Yip, the 2 heaped teaspoons without the ingredients must have been sugar. To get them to puff out - put dough in hot oil and then spoon the hot oil over the dough until its starts to puff. Easy.
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    " It was excellent "
    magician176 ate it and said...
    Wil net weet Liezel, die twee opgehoopte eetlepels(sonder bestandeel) moet sekere die suiker wees, dis wat ons aangeneem en probeer het?
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    magician176 ate it and said...
    fantasties! Dis net wat ons gesoek het, dankie Liezel. Ons sit hier in NZ en sukkel om 'n ordentlike resep te kry!
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  • ristows 16 years ago
    Liezel, Many years ago the Pastor's wife of the AGS used to make these rectangular vetkoek which puffed out almost like a pita bread - which made filling with the curry mince very easy. Any idea how to get them to puff up like that?
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  • capedread 17 years ago
    good lord above I haven't had one of these for years ....serves 30! best cut that one into 3 at least lol
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    " It was excellent "
    ambus ate it and said...
    It looks sooooo good!very well done Liezel!
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    " It was excellent "
    organicmama ate it and said...
    Liezel, these look wonderful, I agree with Kukla it's nice to learn about new recipes and such. Thanks!
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  • liezel 17 years ago
    Glad you guys like it!!
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  • robertg 17 years ago
    These will go good for football games, when the house is full.Thanks for a very good post..Bob
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  • kukla 17 years ago
    What a wonderful post!! I really appreciate learning something new, a new recipe from another country, and the background info to support the recipe. Thanks you (once again), Liezel :)
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    " It was excellent "
    ahmed1 ate it and said...
    I like these kinds of fried doughs.I will choose the one with cheese and syrup of course ;) Thanks for sharing.Really great one.
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