Sweet treats of childhood bring us back home, to the noisy family table. The atmosphere of comfort and warmth give your favorite dishes from the family piggy bank. Donuts, fried in butter, sprinkled with powdered sugar, with a filling or without it, fit very well for a Saturday’s tea party in a big company. We have selected the most delicious and simple recipes for donuts.
Cottage cheese donuts
You can use the 2-3-day cottage cheese. The taste of the donuts will not be harmed.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese – 300 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- flour – 1 cup;
- sugar – 0.5 cup;
- sour cream – 3 tablespoons;
- sunflower oil for frying;
- salt;
- baking soda – at the tip of a spoon.
How to prepare
Mix the cottage cheese with sugar, sour cream and eggs. Add a quarter teaspoon of salt and soda. At least put the flour and mix well. For the dough to turn out elastic, let it stay for 15 minutes covered with a towel. Make a sausage, divide it into pieces of 2-3 cm and roll up each piece into a ball. Meanwhile, pour oil in a deep frying pan, put it on fire and let it heat. Gently drop the balls into the oil, stir with a slotted spoon so they fry evenly. Donuts turn golden brown. Put them in a colander to get rid of extra oil. You can dip the donuts in jam, condensed milk or cream. What is valuable in this recipe? Firstly, the main ingredient – useful cottage cheese, secondly – the dish is simply and quickly done.
Kefir donuts
Incredibly tasty and sweet donuts can be made of kefir (fermented milk). They are simple to make and delicious to drink tea with in a big family.
Ingredients:
- kefir/ yogurt – 1 cup;
- eggs – 1 pc;
- soda – 1 tespoon;
- sugar, salt – 1 tespoon;
- vegetable oil – 3 tespoons;
- flour – 1 cup.
Preparation
Mix kefir and egg, add salt and sugar. After that, add soda. After the end of the active foaming process, pour vegetable oil. Sift the flour, and then it becomes lush, with no impurities, oxygenated. Add the flour into a bowl and knead the dough, until it is a smooth and elastic. Divide the dough in half and roll out each piece with a rolling pin. Cut out circles with a glass. In the middle of each of them make a small diameter hole, to make a ring. Fry the rings in hot vegetable oil evenly on both sides. Take out the donuts with a slotted spoon on a paper sheet to excess the absorbed fat. Sprinkle with powdered sugar or icing.
American donuts with milk
These donuts are popular in America. They eat tons of them. And in every house people can cook them. There are many options. We offer you one of the recipes. There are American donuts with milk. The dish is very high in calories, but we do not allow ourselves to eat them every day.
Ingredients (for 40 donuts):
- warm milk – half a liter;
- yeast – 1.5 tablespoon;
- sugar – 4 tablespoons;
- salt – 0.5 teaspoon;
- egg yolks – 3 pieces;
- butter (softened) – 50 g;
- alcohol (fragrant) – 50 g;
- vanillin – 2 g;
- flour – 4 cups.
For the glaze:
- 250 grams of powdered sugar;
- half glass of milk.
Preparation
It is not troublesome to cook yeast dough, if we have a bread maker at hand. Load all the ingredients into it and make the dough. If you do it without an “assistant”, first make a brew on a half of milk. Add the yeast, a little flour, sugar, salt. The consistency should be like sour cream. Let the brew stand for 30 minutes in a warm place. The bubbles on the surface will prompt you when it is ready. Then add the milk, butter, brandy (or other alcohol), egg yolks and remaining flour. Knead the dough, let it rise. Roll the finished dough out 3 mm thick. Cut it in circles. In the middle of each make a small hole. Leave the bagels for 1 hour. In a saucepan with thick walls (shown) pour just enough oil for the donuts to float. Heat the oil to sizzle, carefully (so that the dough does not shrink) drop the donuts into the oil. Roast evenly on both sides. Spread on a screen or paper towels to remove excess fat. Meanwhile, prepare the glaze. Gradually add the milk into powdered sugar so it melts. Once the glaze becomes viscous, dip each donut on one side and let the glaze harden. Fragrant and delicious donuts are ready!
Donuts of condensed milk
These donuts are very nourishing. They are not too airy, but they can be cooked quickly for breakfast. The recipe is simple, even an inexperienced cook can cope with them.
Ingredients:
- condensed milk – 200 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- flour – 2 cups;
- salt, soda – 0.5 teaspoons;
- sunflower oil – for frying.
Preparation
To prepare the dough for the donuts from condensed milk, you must first beat the eggs with the condensed milk; add salt and soda extinguished with vinegar. Then add flour. Knead the dough and leave it for 15 minutes to rest. Then make a sausage two fingers thick, cut it into pieces, roll them into balls. In a deep frying pan heat the oil and fry the donuts in it. Both sides should be evenly brown. Take them out of the oil with a skimmer, let the fat drain, sprinkle donuts with powdered sugar and serve with tea.
Yeast donuts
The highlight of \yeast donuts is that are very airy and gentle. Making the dough is a very specific art. And now, in order:
Ingredients:
- warm milk – 0.5 l;
- egg – 2 pcs;
- flour – 600 g;
- sugar – 75 g;
- yeast – 1 teaspoon;
- butter (melted) – 150 grams;
- powdered sugar.
Preparation
Dissolve sugar and yeast in 100 ml of warm milk. Wait until foam rises like a cap. Then add this mixture into the rest of the milk with salt, butter and eggs. Pour the flour and mix. The dough will turn watery. About 2 hours after it rises, cut it into rings. Grease hands with vegetable oil, for them not to stick to the dough. Fry in heated oil until golden brown. Ready donuts sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Donuts with filling
Airy donuts with filling are a delicious accompaniment of the tea ceremony. Inside you can put jam, boiled condensed milk, thick jam, chocolate.
How to make yeast dough, see above (yeast donuts). It can spend a night in the fridge well. For breakfast, you can bake hot donuts.
Ingredients (for 12 donuts)
- flour – 2 cups;
- egg yolks – 3 pieces;
- sugar – 1/3 cup;
- milk – 1 cup;
- salt – a pinch;
- vanilla – 1 teaspoon;
- yeast – 1 packet of “fast” yeasts.
Method of preparation
Roll the dough out to 1 cm thick, cut out small circles. In the middle put a piece of chocolate or 1 teaspoon of jam. Cover with the second circle and pinch the edges. Give them a shape of a bun. Fry in vegetable oil until tender. Take the donuts out and serve sprinkled with powdered sugar.
