*Singing* Vetkoek in the oil, a vetkoek in the oil
Hi-ho a dairy-o a vetkoek in the oil
What if we use Canola oil?
Or should we use sunflower, doesn't matter
similar viscosity so the temperature is always the same
Exactly right Willyballs!
V is for Vetkoek!
Today we have a very special guest in the studio
He's a food aficionado
Please welcome on the show one of my old old friends
 
Wuddup Fam!
Aren't you in all those ads? I've seen you on billboards
If you don't recognise me on the billboards you might recognise me from the ads
Which ads?
I'm the guy from the ads
What are we gonna make today?
Today we are making a very traditional  and firm, family, fun, favourite
of the South African nation
Vetkoek - or vetkoeke
You will need 1kg of flour, 1/2 cup of oil
4 tsp of sugar, 1 packet of instant yeast
4 cups of luke warm water and a pinch of salt
It's dough time team
Open up the yeast and pour it in a large bowl; pinch of sugar
Add about half of your water but you don't need to be too scientific
about it because bread is not a science
I disagree
Give the yeast a swirl and wait five minutes
Wait for it to froth
It doesn't look very frothy
I mean it's got air bubbles
So we're popping in the flour
the sugar, the salt now we're gonna start giving it a mix while I add the water
Little bit by little bit
Little bit more
No that's too much
Oh this feels too nice!
It's actually easier to add the oil inside the bowl otherwise it's a big mess
Now that we've taken it out of the bowl, we're gonna knead it for about 5 minutes
You know dough actually likes to be slightly mistreated
No it doesn't
It does
We're gonna pop it on a board, cover it
*Singing* It is time to rise, it is time to rise
Gluten is happening, it's science in the bread
Okay bread's a science
Okay we're gonna let it rise, Will. Enough of your shenanigans
45 minutes
What you going to do in that time?
Now
I'm gonna to sit ups
Now that our dough is risen, we're going to make our vetkoek into little balls
Today Willyballs has got a trick to show us
Take a big piece of dough like this and roll it up with your hands
Take your fingers, pinch it, pull it, two perfect dough balls
and you know why its always the same size?
Why?
Because your hand is always the same size
Suzelle please will you just pop that down on the board there
Sure
Willyballa
Time to fry our vetkoek
Heat up about 4cm of oil
A lot of people ask me, Willyballs how do you know that the oil's hot enough?
What you do is just take pipi of this dough and you roll it in your fingers like this
and just pop it in
If it sinks then the oil isn't hot enough, if it sinks, starts to bubble, floats to the top
the oil is perfect
Just like that?
Look at that
Look at that tiny little vetkoek
I'm gonna give that to all my ant friends at home
Then we're gonna put it in the oil
Oh now that's gorgeous
So the oil must be quite low
You don't want boiling hot oil because then the bread just burns and it's doughy on the inside
The oil must be doing this
You must feel it
in your bones
It's doing this
It's very instinctual
This is what the oil is doing
This dough balls
it's not going like this
No
Slowly like this
Time to turn the vetkoek
Willy how old were you when you first made
ohh you know I can't even remember
It feels like just probably about 25 years ago
You just got to bobble them around the oil a bit
until you're sure they're cooked
but how tell they're cooked, you just gotta do the hear test
I don't actually know if there is a hearing test for this
Let's remove the vetkoek from the oil
Beautiful!
Vet little koeks
and pop it in cinnamon sugar because we're gonna make churros
Let's pop some chocolate spread into a piping bag!
Don't mock me
Make a little incision
Put your piping bag right in there and squeeze
Look at it its so gorgeous
No man Willy siesig
Don't drink that chocolate spread
And finally dust a little bit of icing sugar on top
There's it
Now we've got dessert done, lets get on to savoury
I agree Will!
We're gonna be making Bacon and Egg Beingets just in time for breakfast
Now we're gonna cut them in half like little buns sent from heaven
Ah it's perfectly cooked
Add some delicious chutney
Its chutney not chukney
I used to think it was chukney for a very long time
It's chutney
Right until I was a adult
Let's blast on some cheese, some bacon, while I friend up some eggs to place on top
Final flourish some rocket, salt and pepper
Pop on the lids, say it Willy
There's it
And there you have it, some delicious, sweet and savoury vetkoek!
From our hearts
and recipe books
to your eyeballs and bellies
DIY Because anybody can
Cheers!
Its unbelieveable
Is it?
It is unbelievable
Even though it's cold?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
