Sfenj

[Amina-DZ]

Ingredients

* 600 g flour

* 20 g baking powder

* 1 pinch of salt

* Oil


Preparation

Mix flour, salt, baking powder and a little bit of tepid water.

Knead well while adding water in small quantities until you get a firm dough. Continue to knead for another 15-20 mins.

Add water slowly and continue kneading till the dough becomes elastic.

Cover and leave to rest for about 3 hrs in a warm place.

Take a ball of dough, the size of a lemon, and make a hole in the middle and shape into a Sfanja

Fry in very hot oil.






Serve hot with mint tea (and honey - optional).

[Edited by Amina-DZ on 11th March 2005 at 03:57]

[kassawess]

Lol, strange shapes, we call it: Safnej not sfenj

and we make it as big circles(not as thick) with a little hole in the middle (using ur finger)

[kassawess]

Exactly, I love it too, it`s very tasty and my mom is a specialist in making it

[3rdTroop]

the second pic looks like jaj mhammer

[kassawess]

haaaahahahahahahahahahhhhahahahahahahahah

man, u know in the west they like chubby stuff

[kassawess]

the only thing i can thing of is something we have in Ramadan, its called "Lmgergshat" it has not hole in the middle though . its like zlabia but much nicer ,done with eggs and is better with peanuts

[kassawess]

Originally posted by Amina-DZ

Originally posted by kassawess
the only thing i can thing of is something we have in Ramadan, its called "Lmgergshat"

Sometimes I wonder what they were thinking about when they named some of the food in Algeria!

Actually I don't know it!

Lol I think from looking at your cakes pic and knowing that mgergshat look like them you can deduce that it basically means ugly and "msentah", I think in Oran they say: "Sabi malek mkerkesh?"
in our dialect it might mean rough irregular surface