Lush bagels with a caramel crust, which was obtained as a result of contact with hot oil, sprinkled with powdered sugar or coated with sugar glaze - it is incredibly tasty, but also just as nutritious. However, sometimes you can still knead the dough for donuts and enjoy lush pastries.
Material Content:
Classic Donut Dough
Donuts according to this recipe were prepared not only by many housewives, but also in most of the magnificent pies.
Make a classic dough from this set of products:
- water - 300 ml;
- fresh yeast - 15 g;
- sugar - 50 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- butter - 25 g;
- salt - 4 g;
- flour - 500 g.
Step by step recipe:
- Prepare the dough: dissolve the yeast in a small amount of water, literally 5 g of sugar and an amount of flour sufficient to obtain a sour cream consistency. Leave the covered sponge warm for 20 minutes.
- Then add the egg, water, sugar, salt, soft butter and flour to the yeast mixture with a fork. You get a very soft and sticky dough.
- Form a ball with your hands dipped in vegetable oil and put in a greased bowl.
- Kneading should be suitable for one and a half hours. Then it must be carefully divided into pieces-balls, which still have to come up for 20 minutes. In the prepared workpieces, make holes in the center and fry in vegetable oil.
You will have to work with this test, constantly wetting your hands in oil, since it will stick to your palms, and you cannot hammer it with flour.
Donuts come in different shapes, but most often they look like a donut with a hole in the middle. Why is this hole? It is very simple - so that the dough is baked not only around the edges, but also in the middle.
Cooking on kefir
Kefir donuts are instant baked goods, since it takes no more than a quarter of an hour to manually knead the dough, and even less with kitchen gadgets.
Proportions of test ingredients:
- kefir - 270 ml;
- large egg - 1 pc.;
- sugar - 25 g;
- vanillin - 2 g;
- soda - 6 g;
- vegetable oil - 70 ml;
- salt - 5 g;
- flour - 350 g.
Knead as follows:
- Combine the egg, vanillin and kefir together and stir with a whisk until smooth. Continuing to whisk the mass with a whisk, introduce soda, vegetable oil and sugar.
- Mix flour with salt and sift twice through a sieve. Then add 1/3 of this mixture to the liquid component and stir with a whisk or spoon.
- As soon as the mass becomes homogeneous, proceed to kneading with your hands, gradually adding flour.
So that the dough does not become steep, the last third of the loose mixture should be added literally on a tablespoon until the moment when the batch ceases to stick to your hands.
For maximum donut splendor, the temperature of the food is very important in this recipe. It should be room, so you need to get kefir and an egg from the refrigerator in advance.
How to make in milk
This milk dough is not only airy and weightless, but also very tasty. And if the finished baked goods are still covered with sugar or chocolate icing and decorated with sugar sprinkles, then the dessert will not be ashamed to serve even at the festive feast.
The composition of the batch includes:
- milk heated to 40 ° C - 500 ml;
- dry yeast - 18 g;
- sugar - 80 g;
- salt - 3.5 g;
- chicken yolk - 3 pcs.;
- soft butter - 50 g;
- cognac or other aromatic alcohol - 50 ml;
- vanillin - 2 g;
- flour - 520 g.
Sequencing:
- Dissolve salt, sugar and yeast in half the recipe amount of milk. Then pouring flour, cook the dough according to the consistency as sour cream, which should be left warm for 30 minutes.
- Add the remaining milk, other ingredients and flour to the dough. Leave the batch warm to rise.
- Then form donuts in any way from the dough, let them rise for an hour, and then fry in a large amount of oil.
The frying oil needs to be heated in a container with thick walls and a bottom, so that the heating is uniform, and the workpieces themselves are lowered into the hot deep fryer very carefully so that the dough does not fall.
With yeast
This version of the test is incredible splendor, which is achieved due to the lack of baking in the batch (butter, eggs) and a large amount of sugar. So such pastries in vegetable oil can be enjoyed on fasting days.
To knead yeast dough for donuts, you must prepare:
- pressed yeast - 25 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- sugar - 40 g;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- flour - 325 g;
- salt - 1.5 g.
The sequence of actions:
- In a bowl, combine 100 ml of water, the norm of yeast and sugar, 130 g of flour. Stir so that there are no lumps, and pour out the rest of the water. Place a bowl of dough over a saucepan in which boiling water is poured.
- After ten minutes, add 130 g of flour again, stir and return to the pan with the cook.
- After another 10 minutes, add the remaining flour into the dough and knead well. After, you can start forming and frying donuts.
When adding flour to the dough, it is important not to overdo it so that the batch does not turn out too steep. The mass should simply stop sticking to the hands strewn with flour, and the pieces of dough should easily come off.
Bread Dough Recipe
Can a simple donut dough recipe be made with yeast? Of course it can! If you make a batch in the bread machine, then the student will also cope with the task. All you need to measure the required number of products and put them into the device in the prescribed manner.
The list of ingredients:
- warm milk - 200 ml;
- sugar - 60 g;
- vegetable oil - 45 ml;
- salt - 5 g;
- flour - 350 g;
- dry yeast - 10 g.
Cooking method:
- In the bucket of the bread machine, load the products in the following order: milk, butter, sugar and salt.Weigh the flour, sift and pour on top, and already dry yeast on it.
- Run the program for kneading yeast dough and wait for a sound signal about its completion. After this, you can proceed to the formation of products.
From this amount of products, 15 magnificent donuts can be obtained. You can make them very quickly by dividing the batch into 15 identical koloboks, in the center of each make a hole with your finger, stretching it a bit and forming a magnificent ring.
Liquid donut base
A small amount of dry ingredients in the batter also contributes to the fact that when frying, donuts are very lush and airy.
To make kefir batter, you need to take:
- kefir - 200 ml;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- sugar - 70 g;
- soda - 5 g;
- salt - 1.5;
- vanillin - 2 g;
- flour - 200 g.
Cooking:
- Combine the dairy product at room temperature with sugar, salt, egg, vanilla and soda. Shake the mixture with a whisk until smooth.
- Introduce the rate of flour into a liquid base and stir. The dough should turn out to be a consistency like a fritters flowing down with a wide ribbon from the shoulder blade.
There are two ways to bake donuts in oil from such a dough. First: shift the batch into a pastry bag with a cut off tip and drop short strips of billets directly into boiling oil.
The second method involves the use of a special ladle for donuts. First, it is dipped in hot oil, then the dough is poured into it and again lowered into deep fat. The finished donut will surface.
Deep-fried
The deep-fried dough for delicious full-bodied donuts can be prepared not only on milk, water and kefir, but also on a product such as condensed milk. This pastry is very hearty and easy to prepare, so it can be a tasty addition to morning tea or coffee.
List of products used for cooking:
- condensed milk - 170 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- baking powder for dough - 14 g;
- salt - 2 g;
- flour - 260 g.
Working process:
- Sift flour and combine with a baking powder for dough.
- Beat eggs and condensed milk with a whisk or at medium speed of the mixer until smooth.
- Combine liquid and loose components, mix thoroughly, and the dough is ready.
The finished batch is rolled up into a sausage, which is cut into identical pieces, and then balls are formed from each and fried in boiling oil.
In the process of baking donuts, it is important to remember that they should be removed on paper napkins so that they absorb excess fat.
Do not neglect the appearance of the dessert. Donuts can be sprinkled with icing sugar, coated with sugar icing (from milk or berry juice and icing) or dipped in melted chocolate.
