Koeksisters
South Africa · Sub-Saharan Africa
Koeksisters are braided fried pastries soaked in cold sugar syrup. Charlene Pretorius’s preparation makes a syrup flavoured with cinnamon, ginger, lemon juice and zest, then chills it. The dough combines flour, salt, baking powder, butter, egg and water.[1]
After resting, the dough is rolled out and cut into strips. Two cuts leave three joined strands, which are plaited and pinched closed. The pastries fry until golden, drain briefly and go into the cold syrup while still hot. They are then lifted onto a rack to cool.[1]
References
Sources checked:
- Koeksisters — Charlene Pretorius / Woolworths TASTE
image credit
- creator:
- Arnold Goodway
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- modified:
- Downloaded through the Commons thumbnail endpoint, cropped, resized, stripped, and re-encoded from Wikimedia Commons for Gochizu draft review.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.