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'Vitumbua' - rice flour and
coconut cream pastry buns

SAVOURY SNACK ServeD with hot tea

Coastweek - - This much-loved snack pastry is taken from
'A Taste Of Our Cooking': a community recipe collection
courtesy of Ismailia Womens' Organisation United Kingdom.

INGREDIENTS: (serves ten)

• Half a kilo pudding rice 
• Fifty gms coconut cream
• One tsp yeast 
• One small egg
• One tsp sugar 
• A few cardamom seeds
• One tbsp water 
• One cup sugar
• Half a cup boiling water 
•  Oil for frying
• One and a quarter cups milk

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Preparation time: approx. two and a half hours plus overnight
Cooking time: approx. sixty minutes

1. Soak the rice for at least two hours

2. Add one teaspoon of sugar and one tablespoon of water to the yeast and leave it for about ten minutes

3. Melt coconut cream in half a cup boiling water

4. Drain out the water from the rice and liquidise with coconut cream mixture and milk

5. Add in the yeast and cardamom seeds and mix well; keep in a warm place overnight

6. Next day add the sugar and the egg and mix well

7. Pour a ladleful of mixture into one teaspoon of hot oil in a special vitumbua "karahi"

8. When firm and brown, turn to cook the other side to similar colour
   

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