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Samosas

 Beef filling Ingredients 1 kg of minced meat 1 teaspoon of blackpepper Coriander leaves 3 green onions 1 teaspoon of minced garlic Lime juice  Pepper Salt to taste Method In a sufuria add in the minced meat, boil over low medium heat until its dry. To sufuria add in onions, blackpepper, garlic,lime juice, salt, pepper and coriander leaves.Stir and cook over a low medium heat for about 5 - 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside. Dough pastry  Ingredients 3 cups of all purpose flour 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil Lime juice 2 cups of warm water Salt to taste Method In a bowl add in flour, water, lime juice and salt mix together. On a flat surface knead the dough until it becomes soft and no longer sticky . Lightly oil the dough and let it rest for 10 minutes.   After the rest divide the dough into 4 small  equal balls. Roll out the balls into 6 inch diameter and brush some oil on it and sprinkle some flour. Repeat the process with all the balls ...

Viazi Karai

Ingredients 1 kg of potatoes 1 teaspoon of blackpepper 1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper Lime juice  1/4 egg yellow food colour 1 litre of vegetable oil 1 & 1/2 cup of all purpose flour Water  Salt to taste Method Wash the unpeeled potatoes. In a sufuria add water and boil the potatoes until they are soft and they start to peel off. Remove from the heat and peel off the skin completely and set aside. In a separate bowl add in flour, salt, yellow food colour and water. Mix together using a whisk until it is soft and there is no lumps. In a small bowl make chill filling, add cayenne pepper, lime juice and salt and set aside. Cut the potatoes into two, fill in between with chill filling and sandwich them back. Repeat the same process for the rest of the potatoes. In a frying pan over medium heat, pour in the vegetable oil. Dip and coat the potatoes in the bowl with flour and food colour mixture.Deep fry the coated potatoes until crispy.  Serve with ukwaju sause an...

Mandazis

Ingredients  3 cups of all purpose flour  3/4 cup of milk  3 tsp of sugar  1tsp of yeast  Blueband 2 eggs  1tsp of baking powder  Method Wet ingredients  In a separate bowl pour milk, sugar,eggs, blueband and yeast mix the mixture until it becomes evenly.  Dry ingredients  In a bowl add in flour and baking powder. Pour in the wet ingredients into the bowl. Start knead the dough until it becomes soft.  Leave it for about an hour to rise twice the size it was.  Later take the dough and cut into shapes. Heat the oil and deep fry the mandazis.  Serve with hot tea.