Chornaki፡ጮርናቄ

Ingredients

• 3 cups wheat flour
• 2 tsp dry yeast
• 1 cup warm water
• 1/4 cup sugar, plus more for dusting
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp sunflower oil
• 1/2 tsp korerima, ground
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 cups sunflower oil, for frying

Method

1. 1

   Stir the yeast and a spoon of the sugar into the warm water and leave it 10 minutes until it foams

2. 2

   Mix the flour, the rest of the sugar, the salt and the korerima

3. 3

   Beat in the yeast water, the egg and the oil to make a soft, sticky batter-dough — too soft to roll out

4. 4

   Cover and rise 45 minutes

5. 5

   Heat the frying oil to 170°C. Any hotter and the outside colours before the middle cooks

6. 6

   Drop in heaped spoonfuls, a few at a time, and fry 3 to 4 minutes, turning them so they brown all over

7. 7

   Lift them out and drain them briefly

8. 8

   Roll them in sugar while they are still warm