Easiest Way to Make Yummy Lemon mandazi

Lemon mandazi. Mandazi is a popular snack in Kenya. Join me as I show you how to cook mandazi with lemon Kenyan style. See recipes for Bite size lemon mandazi, Lemon mandazi too.

Mix the eggs and milk together and pour into the mixture to make a dough. Knead the dough until firm but soft. Mandazi is a popular snack in Kenya that originated from the Swahili Coast. You can have Lemon mandazi using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon mandazi

1. Prepare of all purpose flour.
2. It's of warm water.
3. You need of sugar.
4. You need of salt.
5. You need of vanilla essence.
6. It's of baking powder.
7. Prepare of Zest of 1medium lemon.
8. You need of Oil for deep frying.
9. It's of Extra flour for dusting.

I'll be showing you how to make a dairy free and egg free version. I think I am becoming obsessed with cooking MANDAZI! This is my second recipe and this time I opted to cook with baking powder instead of Yeast and flavored the Mandazi with Lemon and Cinnamon. This mandazi recipe is simple and easy to follow.

Lemon mandazi step by step

1. Measure all the ingredients and put them in one bowl.
2. Gently add some warm water and mix with fork as you dissolve the sugar.
3. Once the dough has loosely come together,start to knead with your hands for 10 or more minutes to make the dough soft and elastic.
4. Once the dough is soft and semi stretchy,let your dough rest.place it in a bowl greased with very little oil so that the dough doesn't stick. Let it rest for 10 mins.
5. Divide the dough into balls as this depends on the size of mandazi you want.
6. Dust the working surface with flour and roll out and cut into whatever shape you fancy.I cut mine into circular shapes by rolling the dough into a circle and cut it with plastic cup to give me a circular shapes.
7. Deep fry in hot oil until golden brown on all sides.
8. Drain and serve warm.

Ingridients such as eggs and milk add nutritional value Mandazi is one of the most common snacks in the East African region and especially Kenya. Lemon mandazi doesn't require eggs nor milk nor butter, so it is most definitely vegetarian, vegan, lactose friendly. For a basic mandazi recipe, simply leave out the lemon zest, and you have regular mandazis! But, if you want a little bit more zest and flavor, add the lemon zest and I promise you will NOT be. There is nothing quite as delicious as a lemon zest warm mandazi!