Best Homemade Vetkoek Recipe that is a traditional South African idea. Easy bread dough fried in oil, filled with fillings for a lunch meal.
Best Homemade Vetkoek Recipe.
The best recipe, is a popular South African traditional homemade vetkoek recipe idea. A favorite No Bake fried recipe, that is a no knead bread dough and only 3 ingredients needed. Easy and simple quick recipe. Various cultures cook vetkoek and there are different fillings to add to them. Eat warm any time of the day for breakfast or brunch or lunch or dinner meals.
The Tswana African call it Magwinga doughnuts and in the South African Afrikaans language its called Vetkoek resep. Americans call it Fat cakes.
How to Make Vetkoek in the Oven.
It is a bread based dough therefore it is easy to bake in the oven. Apply greased wax sheet paper on a baking tray and add the round dough balls at least an inch or two apart so this will give them room to rise and bake. A warm oven of 190 Deg. C or 380 Deg. F will do the trick until baked.
Traditional-vetkoek.
This homemade 3 ingredient vetkoek recipe is fried in hot oil, only until it turns around itself, then the outside is cooked. Add sugar or leave it out.
Homemade Vetkoek recipe Fillings ideas.
It is an amazing versatile recipe and made with a few tasty and amazing fillings. Some are listed below and can be made from left overs.
- chicken left over from a roast then make a curry with it and fill the vetkoek.
- bacon and egg for a breakfast.
- for a light snack or meal spread some jam and cheese on it.
- more filling meal make the curry versions of mince.
- traveling you can cook the vetkoek with a boiled egg inside
- add cooked boerewors inside with some homemade tomato and onion sauce.
- vegetarian can make spinach and feta fillings or salad fillings.
It so versatile and delicious.
Ingredients
- flour
- salt
- sugar
- yeast
- water
- oil for frying
See the recipe attached for the amount needed and the instructions for cooking the vetkoek.
How to cook or fry vetkoek.
Make the dough and leave to rise in a warm place for an hour or two. Warming up the oil in a larger pot or deep pan for the dipping of the vetkoek dough.
Add a ball of the size you require into the oil and leave to cook until it turns around itself then it will be brown and cooked.
Take out and leave to cool for a little while until warm enough for you to handle, or fill with your favorite fillings.
These vetkoeks may have added fillings in the dough before cooking, such as spinach and feta.
Can Vetkoek be Cooked without Yeast?
Yes you can cook the dough without yeast and add some baking powder. No rising time needed or kneading. Bake in the oven or fry them in oil as you desire. Serve cut with fillings for a filling lunch or dinner meal.
Storing vetkoek or freezing.
Cooked vetkoek may be kept on the counter with a lid on for the next days breakfast. When they are cold you can seal them in a container and freeze them. For warming them up just defrost them and place in a warm oven of 180 Deg. C for 10 minutes. Microwaving them will make them tough.
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PrintA Homemade Vetkoek Recipe
Best Homemade Vetkoek Recipe that is a traditional South African idea. Easy bread dough fried in oil, filled with fillings for a lunch meal.
- Prep Time: 15 min + 2hrs rise time
- Cook Time: 5 min
- Total Time: 20 min
- Yield: 20 1x
- Category: Meals, supper or lunch or dinner
- Method: Stove top No Bake
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
- 4 x 250 ml flour (cups)
- 7 ml yeast (1 1/2 tsp)
- 5 ml sugar (1 teaspoon)
- 3 ml salt (1/2 tsp)
- 600 ml warm water or warm milk(or mixed)
- Oil to fry in.
Instructions
- Place oil to warm up on stove top later.
- Sift dry ingredients together first.
- Then add the milk a little bit at a time to make a smooth mixture, easier handling.
- Knead the dough till elastic for about 8 minutes.
- Smear some oil over the dough and place covered in a warm place till the dough has doubled in size. should take about 2 hours
- Knead the dough down and cut into strips and knead them again, let dough cuts rise a little.
- The oil will be heated and place the portions into the deep oil, to fry until they turn over themselves (or turn them)and are golden brown on both sides.
- Remove when done and let them cool on paper towel to drain the oil.
- Cut when cooler and fill with your desired filling
Other Filling Ideas.
- Meat less snack, Vetkoek spinach and feta filling
- Vetkoek lamb and hummus filling
- Vetkoek egg and boerewors filling
- Boiled egg and sauce filling.
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