🇧🇿 How to Make Fry Jacks

Craving Fry Jacks? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Fry Jacks at home, in about 35 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp shortening or butter, cold
• ¾ cup water or coconut milk
• oil for frying
• refried beans, cheese, jam or honey, to serve

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt, then rub in the fat until it looks like coarse meal.
2. Add the liquid and bring together into a soft dough. Knead lightly for 1 min only — fry jacks want to be tender, and kneading builds the gluten that makes them tough.
3. Rest the dough, covered, for 15 min. This matters more than it sounds; unrested dough shrinks back and will not puff.
4. Roll out to about 5 mm and cut into triangles. Slash a small vent in the middle of each.
5. Fry in 180°C oil. They should balloon within seconds. If they do not puff, the oil is too cool.
6. Turn once, drain, and serve hot for breakfast with refried beans and cheese, or with jam. Cold fry jacks are just bread.