Recipe: Ujeqe (steamed bread)
Traditional steamed bread that can be served with stew and soup.
Picture: Southlands Sun
This bread doesn’t require an oven as it gets cooked using a saucepan and steamer on a stove.
PrintUjeqe (steamed bread)
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: side
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: South African
Ingredients
Scale
- 200g sugar
- egg white
- 4 cups flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1 1/2 cups warm water or any way best suited
- 11 g sachet instant yeast
- 3 pinches of salt
Instructions
- Mix the flour, sugar, water, yeast, and salt to form a loose dough. Knead the dough for 10 minutes by gripping it and slapping it against the side of the mixing bowl. Put the dough into a clean, greased plastic bag and knot closed. Place in a warm area for about one hour, or until doubled in size.
- Place a steamer over a saucepan of simmering water. Put the bag containing the dough inside the steamer and steam for one hour, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from the saucepan and cover with a tablecloth and place in an open bowl.
Notes
Variety serving sides
- Stew
- Chakalaka
- Soup
- Butter
