• This warm and spicy bread is delicious with any drink and makes a welcome change from cheese straws.

    Mandazi bread

    Serves: 30

    Ingredients

    • 800g cake flour
    • 10g dry yeast
    • 15ml sugar
    • 25ml cumin seeds, roasted
    • 25ml caraway seeds, roasted
    • 12ml salt
    • 280ml hot (not boiling) water
    • 60ml olive oil
    • 750ml sunflower oil

    Instructions

    1

    Combine the flour, yeast, sugar, seeds and salt in a bowl.

    2

    Add the water and olive oil and mix together to form a sticky dough.

    3

    Knead the dough for 10 minutes on a floured surface. Return to the bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Leave in a warm place until the dough has doubled in size.

    4

    Roll out a 30cm square (about 1cm thick) of dough onto a floured surface. Cut into long strips. Place in boiling-hot sunflower oil until puffed up and golden, and serve immediately.