HOW TO MAKE FRIED BAKE AT HOME

I wanted to share this Caribbean breakfast recipe. Bake is a fried dough that is usually served along with fried saltfish. Bake is well known in the Caribbean countries as well as other countries like Guyana. It is also called a float in some countries.There are a variety of recipes depending on the country or culture. I am sharing the bake recipe that I grew up eating.

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Ingredients:

2 Cups of unbleached flour + 1 additional for flouring

1/3 Teaspoon of salt

2 Tablespoons of sugar

4 Tablespoons of butter or margarine at room

temperature

3/4 Cup of warm water

2 Teaspoons of Baking powder

Prep:

Mix all the dry ingredients

Add the butter

Add water gradually

Mix all the ingredients to form a sticky dough

Add 1/2 cup of flour and mix

Until the dough is no longer sticky

Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface

Knead until smooth into a ball

Allow the dough to rest for 30 minutes

Use a dough cutter to cut the dough in half

Cut each half into 4 pieces

That’s a total of 8 pieces of dough

Knead each piece of dough into a smooth ball

on a lightly floured surface

And set them aside

Cover the rolled dough with a clean towel

Allow it to rise for an additional 30 minutes

Preheat 1/2 of a skillet with some vegetable oil

for deep frying

Grab a rolled dough and use your figures

to flatten the dough into a 1/2 inch thick circle

Gently slide it into the preheated oil

Repeat the same step with a second rolled dough

Flip the first dough and watch it rise

Continue to flip the bakes often

Until they are is golden brown on both sides

While removing the bakes from the skillet

allow some of that excess oil to drip into the skillet

Then place the dough in the pan lined with paper

towel to continue to remove the excess oil

Repeat the same steps with the remaining

rolled dough.

I enjoyed my “Fried Bakes” with some “Fried Saltfish”

Enjoy!