Donuts are deep-fried sweet pies, the taste of which is familiar to many from childhood. Petersburgers especially love them and call them in their own way - "donuts". The legendary puffy ones appeared in Leningrad back in the 60s. But until now, this pastry has not lost its popularity. They are prepared with various types of fillings - with chocolate, custard, jam and so on. And also just sprinkle with icing sugar. Donuts can be made easily at home. Products prepared in this way are very airy, fragrant, with an appetizing crispy crust.
It is necessary
- - Milk - 2 cups (500 ml);
- - Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- - Creamy margarine - 0.5 packs (125 g);
- - Dry yeast - 1 sachet;
- - Granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- - Salt - 1.5 tsp;
- - Warm water - 100 ml;
- - Flour - about 500-600 g (depending on the variety, less or more may be required);
- - Vanillin - 0.5 tsp;
- - Sunflower oil for frying;
- - Powdered sugar for decoration - 50 g;
- - Jam, jam, berries with sugar, cream for the filling - optional;
- - Deep frying pan.
Instructions
Step 1
Pour milk and water into a small bowl and heat until warm. It is convenient to do this in the microwave. Add sugar and dry yeast. Mix everything and place in a warm place, covered with a lid or towel. Leave the workpiece to come up for 15 minutes.
Step 2
When time has passed, melt the creamy margarine in the microwave or water bath. Add it to milk with suitable yeast, and also break chicken eggs, salt, vanillin into the same bowl and beat everything until smooth with a whisk or fork.
Step 3
Now add flour to a large bowl. To begin with, take 400 g. Then you can add. Pour the milk-butter mass to the flour and knead the dough. Ultimately, it should turn out to be soft, not tight and not sticking to your hands. Add flour little by little, until the dough is the desired consistency. If it is inconvenient to knead in a bowl, you can do it on the table.
Step 4
Cover the bowl with the finished dough with a towel and put it in a warm place for 1.5 hours. During this time, it should have time to double. After that, roll out a layer no more than 1 cm thick from it and cut out medium-sized circles. To do this, you can use a narrow glass or glass. Leave the blanks to come up again until they double in size. Then grease your hands with sunflower oil and shape the rounds into donuts by making small holes in the middle.
Step 5
After that, take a deep frying pan, heat it well and pour in so much sunflower oil that the products are freely immersed in it. When the oil is hot enough, transfer the first batch to the pan and fry on both sides until golden brown.
Step 6
Place the finished toasted donuts on a large plate lined with paper towels to drain off excess oil. If desired, while the next portion is fried, the finished products can be stuffed with any filling, for example, custard or jam, as well as grated berries with sugar. To do this, make an incision with a knife along the light strip that forms due to frying, and insert the filling. Or just sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Serve hot with coffee with milk (according to the Leningrad tradition).
