Sere Bites: Thin Pancake Recipe

I love love pancakes especially the thin ones and not drenched in oil. Here is one that is Easy and healthy. (For savoury food)

Ingredients

2 cups of all purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup of milk
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
100g of melted margarine
A pinch of cumin seeds
1/4 cup of sugar

Let's Cook

• Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and wet ingredients in another.
• Add the wet ingredients into the flour mixture and and stir,
• Pour in warm water and mix to your desired thinness.
• Heat a skillet, add a small amount of cooking oil and rub the surface and add the pancake batter and spread around the skillet.
• Flip on the other side and add some oil if its stick.
• When the pancakes are brown, they are ready :-)
• Repeat the process until all the batter is done.

You can have it with spicy stew or mince meat

Sere Bites Doughnut without the Hole

This is a combination of doughnut and swahili bun, aka Mandazi/Mahambri. I made them in Ramadhan and was a hit :)

Ingredients

• 2 kg All purpose baking flour
• 4 eggs
• 250g of margarine
• 500g sugar
• 1/4 cup of yogurt
• 2 teaspoons instant yeast
• Green Cardamom (iliki) crushed, the fresh cardamon is green and has a stronger scent.
• warm water

Kneading

• In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, cardamon and yeast. Add melted margarine and mix well (mixture should look like breadcrumbs)
• Add the yogurt and eggs, mix and gradually add water and start kneading. DO NOT KNEAD FOR MORE THAN 10 MIN so that the doughnuts without the hole won't be tough.
• Cover with a moist cloth for 1 hour or until you finish cleaning the house :)

Cut and Fry

• You can use any cutter to design your doughnut without a hole, but i used the a glass to cut them out.
• Take a handful of the dough, flatten on a flat clean surface, flatten to 1/2 an inch and cut them out.
• Place the cut out on a flour dusted surface and repeat the process on the remaining dough.
• Deep fry until brown.

Serve while warm with Masala tea or you can wait it cool and dust icing sugar and serve with chilled ginger juice.

KalKals

My thumb had a workout... ;) Thank you Sahra

Kalkals is a somali and Indian dessert.

Ingredients

500 g of all purpose flour
100 g of butter or margarine
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder

Ingredients for coating

100 g of sugar
2 teaspoons of cardamon powder

Lets get Cooking

In a bowl, add the flour and the melted margarine and mix. Make the mixture look like bread crumbs.

Add water gradually while kneading.

Make a smooth dough and let it sit for 20 minutes under a moist cloth.

Cut the dough in small balls, then take each ball and flatten on a new or clean hair comb.

Add some oil on the comb if the dough sticks to it.

Deep fry the kalkals until brown.








Syrup Time.

Melt the sugar in a small amount of water. Add the kalkals into the syrup and flip until all the kalkals are coated.

I like my kalkals cold so i place them in the fridge :)

Enjoy

Noodles Fried Eggs

Easy, cheap and healthy (serves 3)

We need;

8 eggs

4 packs of noodles

1 onion

3 tomatoes

1 teaspoon beef curry powder

Pinch of pepper

Lets Cook Noodles

• Heat 3 cups of water with a pinch of salt.
• Add the noodles in boiling water and slightly cover the lid.
• When the noodles soften, reduce heat for 5 mins, drain the remaining water.

Lets Cook Eggs

In a heated pan, add a healthy amount of cooking oil.. let it heat up and add diced onions and diced tomatoes and stir until the mixture softens.

Add the spices and stir with a small amount of warm water. Let the water dry and add the beat eggs and stir.

Place the noodles on a flowery plate and add the fried eggs on top.. Sprinkle some onion leaves.

ENJOY

Halal Cocktails

This is simple to make, and quick to drink  *Serves 2*

We Need

1 cup of ripe apple mangoes
1 cup of grated carrots
2 cups of diced pineapples
2 tablespoons of grated ginger

Let's Juice It

Place them all in a blender with a handful of ice cubes for 3 mins.

Strain if you like but i like mine thick.

Poor in a Pre-frozen glass.

Serve while chilled.

Enjoy :)