Donuts / Doughnuts
Servings: 12 nos.
Time: 90 minutes
Difficulty: Medium
Tasty and light donuts
Recently I have been hearing about many outlets selling donuts in Bangalore and people going “mad over donuts” :-)…..So, I decided to try making these donuts which turned out to be relatively simple. There is no baking but deep frying involved in this recipe (of course we can make baked donuts as well but I deep fried them). Donut can be termed something in between bread and cake….Bread because yeast is added and cake because butter is added. We can enjoy donuts anytime of the day, be it breakfast, snack or even meal by itself!
Ingredients
For Donuts
Plain flour (maida) : 3-1/4 cup + for dusting
Powdered Sugar : 1/4 cup + for dusting
Active Dry Yeast : 2 tsp
Milk : 3/4 cup
Eggs : 2
Softened unsalted butter : 110 gms
Vanilla Essence : 1 tsp
Oil for deep frying
For Glaze
Granulated sugar : 1/4 cup
Milk : 6 tb sp
Dark chocolate : 50 gms (tempered)
Rainbow sprinkles
Directions
In a bowl, sprinkle active dry yeast over luke warm milk. Add 1 tsp sugar to help activate the yeast. Keep it aside for 10-15 minutes until yeast foams well
In another big bowl, sieve the flour so that it gets aerated well. Add to it 1/4 cup of sugar and mix well
Beat two eggs lightly with the help of fork and add it to the flour. Add vanilla essence and mix it well with spatula
Add well foamed milk and yeast mixture and also softened butter. Mix well and bring all the ingredients together
Knead the dough for 5 minutes until it is forms a soft ball and no longer sticks to the bowl
Keep in a warm place for 1 to 1.5 hours or until the dough doubles up in volume
Punch the dough to take out the air from dough and allow to rise the dough again for 30 minutes
Once again punch the dough and then keep it in freeze for 30 minutes so that the dough becomes pliable for rolling
Lightly dust the floor with some flour and then roll the dough using rolling pin in 1/2 inch thick round. (For small / mini donuts, keep the thickness to 1/4 inch)
Using donut cutter, cut out the donuts and arrange it in tray / plate. Keep covered using plain cloth at a warm place for 30-45 minutes until these donuts rise again
Deep dry donuts in oil on medium until these turn golden brown and place these in a plate
Dust the powdered sugar on the hot donuts
For chocolate donuts, dip the cooled donut in tempered chocolate and take it out. Take rainbow sprinkles in a plate. Dip the wet chocolate side of donut in the sprinkles so that it gets coated well. Arrange it in plate
For sugar glaze, mix granulated sugar and milk in pan and boil until sugar dissolves and mixture thickens a bit. Allow it cool. Dip the donuts from one side in the glaze and arrange it on the plate
Serve the donuts either warm or even cold
