Magwinya: Doughnut Bites from Botswana

Name: Magwinya: Doughnut Bites from Botswana
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 19 min
Total time: 29 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Botswana
Ingredients: 11 oz all purpose flour; ¼ cup warm water; 2 tbsp sugar; 1 ½ tsp yeast; ¼ tsp salt; 1 ½ tsp vegetable oil; ½ cup ground sugar; 2 cups vegetable oil

A weekend Botswana dessert. Ready in about 29 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

10 minPrep (about)
19 minCook (about)
29 minTotal time
4Servings
More effortDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 3 people +

Changed from 4 to 3 people · Back to 4

Fresh & other

8 oz all purpose flour
3 tbsp warm water
1 ½ tbsp sugar
1 ¼ tsp yeast
⅓ cup ground sugar

Sauces & oils

1 ¼ tsp vegetable oil
1 ½ cups vegetable oil

Spices & seasonings (1): salt

¼ tsp salt

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Mix the dough.
Sugar, and yeast in a stand mixer bowl. add your water.
Leave to get foamy, about 5 minutes.
Add in vegetable oil, salt and the flour.
Knead with a dough hook till a smooth dough forms, about 5 minutes.
Leave the dough to rise.
Remove your dough from the mixer bowl and form in a ball.
Lightly mist your bowl using oil and replace the ball of dough in it.
Cover the bowl.
Let rise in warm place, 1 to 1½ hours, till doubled.
Shape.
Fry the doughnuts.
Heat around 2 inches (2") of vegetable oil in pot to 180℃ / 350℉ – you can use smaller pot needing less oil.
Do it to fill but cooking less doughnuts at time, or a larger one.
Cook more each batch.
Too prep a plate using paper towels if you 't want to bother.
Wait until the oil is at temperature.
Use cookie scoop or two regular tablespoons.
Do it to form a piece of dough in a rough ball shape.
Place in the oil.
Repeat.
Keep going for as many doughnuts will fit in your pot without overcrowding.
Fry each doughnut for around a minute on each side.
Turn halfway through.
Drain on prepared rack or paper towels.
Wait until the doughnuts have cooled slightly.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar.