Botokoin

Name: Botokoin
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 150 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Togo
Ingredients: 250 g wheat flour; 220 ml lukewarm drinking water around 30 °C; 40 g sugar; 5 g instant dry baker’s yeast; 1 g salt; 0.5 g ground nutmeg; 750 ml frying oil, bath quantity only partly absorbed

🍩 Water-based yeast fritters, golden outside and soft within.

Ingredients

250 g wheat flour
220 ml lukewarm drinking water around 30 °C
40 g sugar
5 g instant dry baker’s yeast
1 g salt
0.5 g ground nutmeg
750 ml frying oil, bath quantity only partly absorbed

Preparation

Mix flour, sugar, instant yeast, salt and nutmeg in large bowl. Gradually add 220 ml water around 30 °C and beat with spatula into thick soft sticky batter without dry flour.

Cover and rise about 60–90 minutes around 25 °C until clearly airy and swollen. Time depends on yeast and room; avoid burning hot surfaces.

Heat oil around 170 °C in tall pot no more than half full. Stir risen batter briefly. With two spoons take about 16 even small portions progressively, not all at once.

Fry 4 batches of 4 about 6–7 minutes each, turning and keeping oil 165–175 °C. Open first-batch fritter after cooling slightly: crumb must be set and airy without raw centre. Reduce size or cook gently longer if needed.

Drain on rack and cool about 5 minutes. Serve 4 fritters per person. Reference: 20 preparation, 35 heating/frying, up to 90 rising, 5 cooling, total 150 minutes.