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Recipe: Ujeqe (steamed bread)

This bread doesn’t require an oven as it gets cooked using a saucepan and steamer on a stove.

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Ujeqe (steamed bread)

  • Author: Pamela Mkhungo
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 4 1x
  • Category: side
  • Method: Bake
  • Cuisine: South African

Ingredients

Scale
  • 200g sugar
  • egg white
  • 4 cups flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 1 1/2 cups warm water or any way best suited
  • 11 g sachet instant yeast
  • 3 pinches of salt

Instructions

  1. Mix the flour, sugar, water, yeast, and salt to form a loose dough. Knead the dough for 10 minutes by gripping it and slapping it against the side of the mixing bowl. Put the dough into a clean, greased plastic bag and knot closed. Place in a warm area for about one hour, or until doubled in size.
  2. Place a steamer over a saucepan of simmering water. Put the bag containing the dough inside the steamer and steam for one hour, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
  3. Remove from the saucepan and cover with a tablecloth and place in an open bowl.

Notes

Variety serving sides

  • Stew
  • Chakalaka
  • Soup
  • Butter

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By Pamela Mkhungo
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