If you've ever travelled to East Africa, you've most probably tried mandazi (fried donuts) with bharazi often found in smaller restaurants or sold by street vendors. We loved it! Traditionally bharazi is made with pigeon peas.

On Zanzibar, an insular autonomous region of Tanzania, I met Zainabu, originally from Mozambique and now frying doughnuts in a road stall.

She fried many a day and taught me how to make them.