Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, vetkoek. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vetkoek in a nutshell is deep fried yeast buns that can be served as a snack, for breakfast or lunch. It is usually paired with apricot jam, cheese or with minced curry. I guess since it is February I can safely. Learn how to make traditional South African fried buns, called vetkoek.

Vetkoek is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Vetkoek is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook vetkoek using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Vetkoek:

1. Get 2 cup Flour
2. Take 1 tsp Salt
3. Take 15 grams (1 sachet) Dry yeast
4. Take 2 tbsp Olive oil
5. Prepare 1 cup Hot water (from tap)
6. Prepare 1 Extra flour for kneading
7. Take 1 Extra oil for greasing and deep frying (not necessarily olive oil)

It can be served as a small snack, for breakfast or lunch. Vetkoek - which literally means 'fat cake' in Afrikaans - is a proudly South African pastry. Vetkoek is a dough which is light and crisp on the outside, whilst soft and bread-like on the inside. Vetkoek is 'n tradisionele lekkerny maar wat min weet is dat dié eenvoudige vetkoek deel was van die volksplanting hier aan die Suidpunt van Afrika.

Steps to make Vetkoek:

1. Sift the flour and salt into a large mixing bowl.
2. Add the yeast, olive oil and water. Mix into the dough with your fingers.
3. Sprinkle some flour on your work surface and knead the dough for 5 minutes.
4. Wash, dry and grease the bowl. Put the dough into the bowl, cover it and leave it in a warm place for 1 hour until the dough has risen. (It will double in size.)
5. After 1 hour. Heat the oil in a pot for deep frying. Add a small piece of dough to the oil, once small bubbles appear around the dough, the oil is almost hot enough.
6. Break the dough into fist size balls and add to the oil.
7. Initially turn the vetkoek often because once it's fryed on one side it will keep on falling back to that side, turning them often helps to evenly fry them.
8. It takes quite a while to fry them all the way through (almost 20 minutes.) If you tap on them and they sound hollow they are done. They will also have a nice golden brown colour.
9. Let them drain on kitchen towels or newspaper. Let them cool before serving.
10. Serve them with your choice of condiments: butter, cheese, jam, syrup, anything you like

Vetkoek is a dough which is light and crisp on the outside, whilst soft and bread-like on the inside. Vetkoek is 'n tradisionele lekkerny maar wat min weet is dat dié eenvoudige vetkoek deel was van die volksplanting hier aan die Suidpunt van Afrika. A traditional coloured fried dough bread. Vetkoek , is a traditional South African fried dough bread. The vetkoek forms part of South African culture.

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