Recipe: To Try At Home Pancake and Ndengu

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Recipe: To Try At Home Pancake and Ndengu Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Pancake and Ndengu. Wash and boil the ndengu till tender. Discard the water and fry onions to golden brown, add tomatoes, pound garlic and stir to make a sauce, add salt and tomato paste then add boiled ndengu plus water and stir, let it simmer for a few minutes to cook well.. Boil water until warm and add salt.

Place the lentils in a strainer and pick out any debris or shriveled lentils.

For the pancakes, start with the dry ingredients: The flour, the three spices and the baking powder.

As always, I got all my spices form our local supermarkets, so you can go get yours too.

You can cook Pancake and Ndengu using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pancake and Ndengu

  1. Prepare 3 cups of Self raised flour.

  2. It’s 1 of egg.

  3. It’s 2 spoonful of sugar.

  4. Prepare of water.

  5. Prepare 2 cups of Ndengu.

  6. It’s of carrots.

  7. It’s of onion.

  8. Prepare of tomatoes & garlic.

  9. You need of salt.

  10. You need of oil.

I wanted to add clove as well, but couldn't find the pre-ground one in my pantry and I think that was God's hand stopping me from doing the most lol!

These amazingly soft triangle-shaped donuts are very famous in East Africa where I come from.

They are excellent with a cup of tea or coffee.

The dash of cardamom adds an authentic taste which makes it different from regular donuts.

Pancake and Ndengu instructions

  1. Wash and boil Ndengu.

  2. Fry with onion,garlic,carrots and tomatoes..

  3. Put some flour in a bowl.

  4. Add sugar.

  5. Mix with water till smooth.

  6. Add the egg.

  7. Prepare using a pan..

  8. Serve with tea esp the Masala one..

The temperature has been steadily falling.

That only means one thing: get a bae and spend the rest of the cold season in a permanent cuddle until sunny September it means we now have a chance to enjoy and savor all the beautiful indulgent, warming foods we can get our hands on.

Make those soups, snuggle up to a plate of chicken biryani, let that matumbo na ugali really warm you up!!!

Let it simmer till the tomatoes soften add the pre-cooked ndengu and the remaining cardamom.

When it was ready to serve I chopped up some dhania and folded it in folding in served!