Description
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Ingredients
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Pampoen Koekies
- 1 cup pumpkin puree (or 1 small butternut/pumpkin peeled and diced)
- 1 cup flour (120g)
- 2 Tbsp milk
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp pumpkin spice/mixed spice
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg
- oil for frying
Coating the Koekies
- 1/4 cup castor sugar
- 1 tsp pumpkin spice/mixed spice
Amarula Caramel Sauce
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup heavy/whipping cream
- 1/4 cup Amarula Cream
- 1 pinch of salt (optional)
Instructions
- If you cant get hold of pumpkin puree, peel, dice, and deseed a small butternut.
- Place it in a steamer basket over a pan of simmering water and steam for 15 minutes. While this steams, make your Amarula caramel.
- Make the Amarula caramel, by placing the sugar and water into a pot on high heat. Swirl the water and sugar together until the sugar has completely dissolved. Then allow the sugar syrup to rapidly simmer. Be sure the sugar is fully incorporated into the water before proceeding or your caramel can crystalize. Have your cream at hand in preparation for the next step.
- Cook until the sugar is a deep golden brown, ideally taking the caramel to the point just before it burns.
- Quickly add a splash of the cream to stop the cooking, and once the mixture has finished splattering, add the rest of the cream. Turn off the heat.
- Keep the caramel on the still-warm hot plate, and stir until the caramelized sugar has completely dissolved into the cream.
- Pour the caramel into a bowl to cool down, then add the Amarula and a little sea salt to your preference. Stir again to combine.
- Once the butternut is soft, puree it with a stick blender, measure out one cup, and proceed with making the doughnut/fritter batter.
- Add all the pumpkin doughnut ingredients into a bowl. Stir until no flour streaks remain and everything is incorporated. Be careful not to overmix the batter – mix until just combined.
- Place a 4-5L pot over medium-high heat, and add enough oil to the pot to be 10cm deep. Heat the oil to 180C. Use a kitchen thermometer to test the temperature or alternatively add a little blob of batter to the hot oil. It should sizzle and float. If the batter sinks, heat the oil a little longer.
- Drop 1 tbsp-sized blobs of batter into the hot oil, and fry them for 3 minutes, flipping halfway through cooking to brown evenly. If they brown a little to quickly lower the heat.
- Once cooked, drain them on paper towels, or baking paper and set them aside to keep warm while you finish frying. Repeat until all the batter has been used up.
- Once the doughnuts are ready, add the castor sugar and spice mix to a bowl, and stir to combine.
- Toss the doughnuts in the spiced sugar.
- Plate up the warm doughnuts and serve the Amarula caramel alongside or drizzled over.
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Fry
- Cuisine: South African
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 239.07kcal
- Sugar: 20.71g
- Sodium: 74.37mg
- Fat: 11.77g
- Saturated Fat: 3.25g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7.87g
- Trans Fat: 2.11g
- Carbohydrates: 29.83g
- Fiber: 0.97g
- Protein: 1.93g
- Cholesterol: 24.45mg
