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Malagasy donuts with lychee and pistachio ice cream

Yields6 ServingsPrep Time2 hrs 50 minsCook Time30 minsTotal Time3 hrs 20 mins

Ingredients for 15 Mofo menakely
 250 g wheat flour
 1 sachet vanilla sugar
 1 sachet baking powder
 40 g sugar
 2 tbsp water
 1 egg
 2 l oil for frying
for the lychee icecream:
 300 g lychees (or 1 can)
 150 g yoghurt
 100 g cream
 40 g sugar
for the pistachio icecream:
 100 g roasted pistachios
 50 g roasted and salted pistachios
 5 g locust bean gum
 25 g Inulin
 400 g milk
 100 g cream
 120 g sugar
1

Prepare the ice cream first. For the pistachio ice cream, crush the pistachios with a blender. Bring the milk, cream, and sugar to a boil in a small pot, stirring, and remove directly from the heat. Mix in inulin, locust bean gum, and ground pistachios. Using a hand blender, blend through the mixture until it thickens significantly. Allow cooling. Pour into the ice cream maker and run for a good hour. Freeze in a mould.

2

For the lychee ice cream, peel and core the lychees. Alternatively, drain the liquid from the canned lychees. Chop lychees with a hand blender. Bring the yoghurt, cream, and sugar to the boil briefly, remove from the heat and fold in the lychees. Let cool and freeze in the ice cream maker.

3

Mix wheat flour, vanilla sugar, baking powder, water, egg, and sugar to make a relatively liquid batter. Mix with a mixer until there are no lumps in the batter.

4

Heat the oil in a high pot to 165°C. Now there are two variants to make the mofo menakely. The easy variant is to get a doughnut ladle. You have to leave the ladle already in the hot oil for a minute before using it. Then you leave a few drops of hot oil in the ladle before pouring the dough. Only then, after a moment, the dough will detach from the ladle and float to the surface of the oil. Wait briefly, then turn directly with a wooden stick. In Madagascar, not everyone has such a ladle, so alternatively you can simply spray rings with the dough directly into the oil. They usually become a little less round, but very authentic.

5

Serve Mofo menakely still warm with ice cream. Bon appétite!

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1

Servings 0