Mandazi: East African Coconut Doughnuts. We make soft Mandazi with coconut milk and cardamom.Serve them with masala tea or coconut beans (mbaazi za naazi) for a breakfast you will NEVER forget. It’s honestly so incredible to eat the sweet doughnuts with spicy coconut beans. The cardamom in mandazi is a nod to the other South Asian and Arab influences on East African cuisine, which came about as a result of centuries of maritime trade.Indian communities took root mainly from the mid-1890s, but th