Justin Bonello’s Cooked in Africa is one of our favorite cookbooks ever – here is our rave review!!!

Naturally we needed to try a recipe as soon as we got it! I am dying to try his tin cup breakfast but we needed something to dash on our braai on Saturday and RoosterKoek – braai-bread it was, follow the link for his recipe.
This is what you are aiming for:
and this is what we did:
Let’s Meet the Players:
- a packet of yeast
- a teaspoon of sugar
- 100ml warm water
- 400g flour
- pinch of salt
- a knob of butter
- 2 eggs
- sunflower oil.
Let’s Play The Game:
Step 1: Pop your yeast and sugar into the warm water, sprinkle a tablespoon of flour on top to prevent the top getting a crust (great idea!!!) and leave for ten minutes, until it is active and bubbly.
Step 2: He sieves his flour and salt together… but then he doesn’t have se7en + 1 kids bouncing around. I did measure it and in it went…
Step 3: Using your fingers rub the butter into the flour.
Step 4: Beat the eggs and add them to your, by now, frothing yeast mixture. Make a well in your flour and pour in the mixture.
Step 5: Then knead the dough – and its all about those bouncing kids, he did it by hand and we used a machine.
Step 6: Rub sunflower oil on your dough, so that it doesn’t dry out and leave it to rise and double in size. Once the dough has risen give it a quick knead and divide it in half and in half and in half again… roll your chunks into balls and leave them to rise gain.

Step 7: Then, since they were our dessert, we popped a piece of chocolate into each one for a surprise. You could just as easily use jam.
Our fire had burnt down considerably, and we popped the rolls onto the grid, after a couple of minutes we turned them.
When they are brown on both sides and cooked through…
You are done… a nice warm to be eaten round the fire surprise!!!
That’s it – Bon Appetito!!!
They turned out so fab! Sorry we couldn’t stay!!
Thanks for a great wonderful just-what-I-needed braai; kids loved it too.
Hay J, I am just so glad you guys could make it – what can be better than a spontaneous summer braai. Have a good week!!!
oooh yummy! I think I’m going to be Mother of the year with this recipe!!!
I’ll have to do it on a Sunday so I can get my 52project pic with them looking super happy 🙂
Oh Marcia, Your comment fills my bucket, so to speak!!! Love the idea of your guys diving in and making bread with you!!! Hope you have had a great week!!!