Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, sweet dumplings (kaimati). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sweet dumplings (Kaimati) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Sweet dumplings (Kaimati) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
In this video, we show you a delicious Kalimati Recipe. Kalimati is also known as Kaimati and is fried sweet dumpling coated in sugar syrup. Recipe (In English) HOW TO MAKE SWEET DUMPLINGS.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sweet dumplings (kaimati) using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet dumplings (Kaimati):
- Prepare For the batter
- Get 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- Make ready 1/2 grated potato
- Get 1 tbls sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp instant yeast
- Take 1 tbls ghee
- Make ready 3/4 cup water
- Make ready For the sugar syrup
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Take 3/4 cup water
- Get 1/2 tbls crushed cardamom
- Take 1 squeeze lime
Kaimati are sweet Kenyan dumplings consisting of flour, water, yogurt, yeast, and ghee. The dough is fried in oil until golden brown, then coated in sugar syrup made with sugar, water, lemon rinds. Kaimati or Sweet Dumplings are one of the most famous delicacies in the Kenyan Coast. They make for a delightful snack that is enjoyable at any time.
Instructions to make Sweet dumplings (Kaimati):
- To make the syrup, pan roast the cardamom seeds for a minute or so to release it’s flavours and set aside
- In a heavy bottom pot, over high heat bring the rest of the syrup ingredients to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low, add the cardamom and simmer the syrup until it just starts to thicken (it should resemble the consistency of maple syrup). Remove from heat and allow to cool completely before mixing with the dumplings
- For the dumplings, mix in all the ingredients until well combined. Using your hand, beat the batter for 2-3 minutes (this process creates a kneading effect). The batter should be thick and sticky.
- Cover the batter and allow to rise for 45 mins to an hour
- Once batter has risen to double the size, set aside to cook
- Heat some oil in a deep fryer/frying pan over high heat. Using the tips of your fingers, scoop about a tsp of the batter into the oil. In between each scoop, dip your fingers in cold water so as to avoid the batter sticking to your fingers while dropping in the oil.
- Continue dropping dollops of the batter into the oil but do not overcrowd the fryer. Cook the dumplings until they are golden brown
- Using a slotted spoon, scoop out the dumplings and directly dip in the sugar syrup. Coat the dumplings well with the syrup and transfer to a serving dish
- Continue the frying and sugaring process until the batter is finished
- Set dumplings aside to cool
- Serve as a dessert or with afternoon tea
People always wonder how these sweet crunchy dumplings are made as they are one of the most popular swahili delicacies or swahili dishes popular in East Africa as a whole. Put your flour in a bowl. Add water n make a paste make sure its consistent. The dumplings are not sweet, therefore, honey, regular syrup, or date syrup must be poured on top of the dumplings. Luqaimat, a puffy sweet fried dumpling dipped in honey or syrup, is a firm favourite in our household during Ramadhan, the Amongst the Swahili people of Kenya and Tanzania, they are called kaimati.
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