Description
African beignets (puff puff) made with self rising flour.
Ingredients
Scale
For beignets
- 4 cups of self-rising flour
- 1 cup of granulated sugar
- 1 ½ cup of lukewarm water
- 1 Tbsp of vanilla extract
Mango sauce with mint
- 1 mango
- 4 strings of mint
- A dash of salt
Instructions
For beignets:
- In a mixing bowl, put the flour and make a hole in the middle.
- Put the sugar in hole.
- Progressively add your water while mixing everything with the spoon to eliminate any lumps of flour.
- Mix it well vigorously, until you see air bubbles forming and bursting on your dough. It means that your yeast is activated. This can take a good 5 min.
- Turn on your deep fryer and let the temperature get to 375 F or you can use a small pot with your vegetable oil.
- With clean hands or a small spoon or ice cream spoon, get some batter and put in your fryer in batches.
- Do not overcrowd the fryer, otherwise the temperature will drop and they will absorb more oil.
- Turn them once they are golden brown. This shouldn’t take more than 3 min per batch.
- With a slotted spoon, remove your beignets and place them on a dish that has a paper towel at the bottom.
- Serve them warm or at room temperature.
For mango sauce:
- Remove the skin from the mango. Cut the flesh and put in a bowl. Discard the stem.
- Put it in a bowl with the salt and mint leaves.
- Mix it with hand blender until smooth.