Oh man one of my favorite snacks,well according to one of the friends of Theedee's cuisine page on fb(Maha-Marissa) these are called ball float (like balls floating in oil) but somehow Ghanaians we ended up with bofrot or bofloat (Gotta love Ghanaians lol). I had a craving for these just like they sell on the streets in Accra but I couldn't find none in New York so what does a foodie like me do I go on a search for the recipe. And waa-la I found it from my Auntie Mary of course lol.They taste close to exactly what I was craving for.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of flour
- 2 teaspoons of yeast
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/3 cup of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
- 1/3 cup of lukewarm water
- 2 tablespoons of milk
- Oil for frying
Method:
- Stir yeast in 1/4 cup of warm water. Stir in 1 teaspoon of sugar and set aside for 10mins. If the mixture doubles in volume the yeast is active
- Mix your flour,butter,sugar,nutmeg and stir in the yeast. Slowly add in your milk and water.
- Sprinkle some flour on a clean surface and knead your mixture till its very smooth and doesn't stick to the surface (this is the longest process for this whole recipe,usually takes about 10-15mins because you want the dough to be very smooth).
- Cut pieces of the dough and mold it into small balls, place on a baking sheet(sprinkle some flour on the sheet)
- Cover with napkin or towel and allow the dough to rise(usually takes 30mins to an hour to rise, it also depends on how warm the kitchen is, the heat enables it to rise faster)
- Fry until golden brown. (When the oil is extremely hot it doesn't take a long time for it to brown so keep stirring and keep paying attention to it)
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| Dissolving yeast |
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| Milk and water mixture |
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| Flour-ed baking sheet to place the ball float |
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| Step by step after kneading |
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| A perfectly risen bofrot. I was so happy when I saw this. Haha. |
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| Another perfectly risen ball float lol |
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| Step by step frying stages, as you can see the ball floats were browning very quickly but don't take them out just yet because you want the insides to be well done. |
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| In the process |
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| Ball floating in oil I loved how this turned out :-D |
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| Hot and tasty! Haha. :-) |
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| This is how the inside of the ball float should look. If the dough is still stretchy that means its not ready |
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| Too good. Ps: someone placed an order for this lol,...wasn't for the house |
