Plaited fried dough dunked in ice-cold syrup — crunchy outside, syrup-soaked inside.
Ingredients
- Syrup: 4 cups sugar, 2 cups water, 1 tsp ginger, juice of ½ lemon
- Dough: 4 cups flour, 4 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, 60g butter, 1 egg, 250ml milk
- Oil for deep-frying
Method
- 1
Boil syrup ingredients 5 minutes, then chill overnight (must be very cold).
- 2
Rub butter into flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk egg and milk, mix into a soft dough. Rest 1 hour.
- 3
Roll 5mm thick, cut into 6x2cm strips, slit each twice and plait.
- 4
Fry at 180°C until golden.
- 5
Straight from the oil, plunge into the icy syrup for 30 seconds. Lift onto a rack.
Kwai Lekr Wine
🍷 What Should I Pour?
Syrupy koeksisters need either sweetness to match, or bubbles to cut through.
Everything you need for Syrupy Koeksisters is in the ingredients above. Add a bottle to the table from a Kwai Lekr estate.
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