Cocothende

Name: Cocothende
Ingredients: 1 tbsp hot oil; ¼ tsp ground cardamom (optional); 1½ cups water; 1 cup desiccated coconut; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 cups granulated sugar; 1 cup semolina; Oil for deep frying; 4 cups plain flour; ¾ cups hot water

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

4 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
¾ cups

Snack
Vegan

Method

Mix the dry ingredients and then rub in the tablespoon of oil.
Add the water (as hot as you can bear it) and knead into a pliable dough.
Shape into a large rope and break off bits the size of small satsumas. These need to be shaped by hand into small sausages, then indented with three fingers to split and run over a ridged sur