Doughnuts
Instructions
Knead the dough 200 g flour with the yeast dissolved with a few tablespoons of lukewarm milk, formed a dough and let it rise, covered, until will have doubled its volume.
Meanwhile, sift the flour on pastry Board rest, placing it in fontana, formed a recess in the Center and put the eggs, salt, the remaining milk, the butter and the sugar and mix the ingredients well until you get a homogeneous mixture.
Carefully fold the leavened dough and knead the mixture for a long time and vigorously.
Let the dough rise again, covered with a tea towel in a warm place for about 1 hour.
After this time you work the dough again, let it rest again, then divide into pieces of 50 g each, which give a rounded shape.
Roll out the dough balls with the rolling pin, place in the center of each spot a teaspoon of jam and close it well, so that it is perfectly round.
Align the doughnuts on a cloth sprinkled with flour, mash lightly, cover with another towel and let them rise until they will have doubled their volume.
At this point put them, a few at a time, in a pan with hot oil (180 degrees), close it and let them cook for 3 minutes, then remove the lid, turn the doughnuts and cook the other side for 3 minutes.
Lower the heat and continue cooking for 2 minutes, then drain the donuts and then toss them on a piece of blotting paper, why lose excess absorbed grease.
Let them cool on a rack, then sprinkle them with powdered sugar.
There are two other methods, the simplest of the former, to prepare the doughnuts.
Second method: roll out the dough into a 1 cm thick layer and cut it to 7 cm in diameter.
Put in half a teaspoon of jam, cover with remaining discs, pressing well along the edges, brushed with a little water.
Third method: stuffed Donuts just after firing, putting at the Centre of each a little jam with the help of a cloth pocket.
Ingredients and dosing for 8 persons
- 500 g of flour
- 40 g of brewer's yeast
- 15 cl of milk
- 60 g of butter
- 70 g of sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon of salt
- 3 eggs
- Jam to fill
- Frying oil