Zanzibar Rice Cup Cakes (Vitumbua)

Zanzibar Rice Cup Cakes (Vitumbua)

Ingredients

• 5 dl. Grounded grove rice
• 3 dl. Fine rice flour
• 4 dl. Heavy or concentrated coconut milk
• 4 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
• Oil for deep frying

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
• Deep fry the vitumbuwa in its pan until brown.

Tips:

Use the Japanese pan or muffin pan if you fry the vitumbua or the normal Zanzibar pan.

Do not use a lot of oil in the process of deep frying

Bon Apetite.

Ben