Zanzibar Rice Bread (Mkate wa Kumimina)

Zanzibar Rice Bread (Mkate wa Kumimina)

This is a kind of bread which you can eat in the afternoon with Masala tea. But it has many names ' Kumimina' 'meaning pouring bread ' or ' Sinia ' ' meaning serving plate bread '.

Ingredients

• 4 dl. Grounded grove rice
• 2 dl. Fine rice flour
• 4 dl. Heavy or concentrated coconut milk
• 2 dl. Water
• 13 gms. Fresh yeast or dry yeast
• 4 big spoons sugar
• 1 tsp. salt
• A pinch of Cardamom
• A pinch of black grounded pepper

Method

• Soak the grove grounded rice flour for 3 hours in water
• Mix the yeast with sugar and salt
• Warm the coconut milk until 60 degrees Centigrade
• Mix by hand all the ingredients together properly.
• Leave the dough to yeast for about 3 hours.
• Leave again to yeast for about 40 minutes again
• Preheat oven to 250 degrees C. Line the bottoms of two 8 inch round pans with parchment paper
• circles or just greased the pans. Sift together rice flour.
• Pour the barter in the pan and in the oven for 25 minutes until the bread is brown.

 

 

Serve it cold.

 

 

Bon Apetite.

Ben