DISH RESEARCH · Snack
Kac-kac
Kac-kac are small Somali fried doughnuts with an enriched, lightly sweet dough.
About Kac-kac
Kac-kac are small Somali fried doughnuts with an enriched, lightly sweet dough. Leila and Abdullahi’s rendition recalls the piles of these snacks sold in traditional Mogadishu restaurants for breakfast.
Butter and milk give the dough richness, while eggs and baking powder contribute to its tender texture. Sugar provides a gentle sweetness beneath the golden fried surface.
The doughnuts have a compact, cut shape with shallow marks across the top. They can form a small breakfast or snack, with Somali milk tea offered alongside for a familiar restaurant-style pairing.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat, Egg, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Kac-kac
Leila and Abdullahi’s Mogadishu-style kac-kac.
- All-purpose wheat flourBase
- Granulated sugarSweetener
- Baking powderSeasoning
- EggsBinder
- Unsalted butterCooking medium
- MilkLiquid
- Canola oilCooking medium
- Prepared Somali milk teaAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- All-purpose wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat source-confirmed. Actual21 explicitly All-purpose flour; normal Wheat identity, no inferred method dust not named.
- Granulated sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual22.
- Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual23; intended product full formula unprovided.
- Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual24.
- Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual25.
- Milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual26 dairy Milk.
- Canola oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual28/44 first explicitly offered frying oil selected over unspecified other flavourless oil.
- Prepared Somali milk tea (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual13 restaurant breakfast service outside complete doughnut formula, optional. Milk literal; tea seasoning/full formula unprovided and no applicable own tea recipe link in actual anchors.
Origins & food traditions
Cuisines & regions
- Somali
- Djiboutian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Somali CuisineCatalogue link pending review