Africa Tennis Beignet Togolese Snack
So, for the Africa tennis, I tried several gluten free flours but couldn’t get the desire outcome, but feel free to experiment. The following recipe is one way of making the delicious beignets. It feels you up so quickly. Beware if you are on a weight loss journey because it is hard to stop at one piece.
I’ve baked some and air fry also, but my grandma was tossing in her grave, the outcome was not that good. I believe in eating the real thing by deep frying it, of course eat if moderately.
For deep frying I use coconut oil, because of its high cooking point but also it was traditionally fried with coconut oil.
I made these for my kids and the majority love them, but my middle child said it is too much dough. But try it and see for yourself as I am sure you will not regret it.
Below is what you need:
6-7 cups flour
3 tbsp butter
1 tsp Nutmeg
1 cup of sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp Vanilla
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Yeast
1 cup milk
1 cup Water
A pinch of Salt
Ingredients
Instructions
Melt the butter, add it to the dry ingredients and start mixing.
Knead the dough on a flat surface or in a Dough mixer, add flour if the dough is too wet and unmanageable by hand. When done set the dough in a large bowl and cover up to rest and rise for about 50 minutes.
Then let then cover balls with towel and let it seat for about 30minutes.
Start frying dough in preheated hot oil at medium low heat.
