Donuts

Donuts / Doughnuts is a much liked sweet delicacy around the world and is made in various forms. A visit at our local Dunkin Donuts outlet had me motivated to try them. Since then after researching quite a bit, I finally landed with one for the deep fried variant. The end result was quite the yummy one & since then I have been hooked on making them. I can definitely vouch for the fact that this will be a sure fire hit amongst the sweet lovers in your circle. You can decorate it with your choices of sprinkles.

Cuisine: USA
Makes: 14- 16 no.s

Ingredients
• 2 ½ cup Flour/maida
• 2 ½ tsp. active dry yeast
• 1 egg
• 57 gms butter unsalted melted
• 4 tbsp. sugar
• ¾ cup milk (whole or tonned)
• Pinch of salt
• Veg oil for deep frying

In a bowl add warm milk(not hot); sprinkle yeast and 1 tsp. sugar. Cover and let stand for 10 minutes until it starts to foam.
In a bowl, add melted butter, egg, salt and sugar and whisk until combined. Add the yeast & mix.
Now add flour and knead well for about 5 minutes. The dough will be little sticky. That’s perfectly fine. Grease a bowl with veg oil and put the dough in it and close and leave it to rise in a warm place until double in size. It normally takes 1 hour to rise but again it will depend upon the room temperature. Wait for 2 hours at the max.

Now punch down the dough and sprinkle some more flour and knead until non sticky. But do not add too much flour. With a rolling pin, roll the dough into 1.5 inch thick and with a cookie cutter or you can use a glass and cut into rounds. If using glass, dust the rim with flour and then cut. You can use a small bottle cap to cut a small round in the middle of the rounds. Sprinkle some flour on a paper or a baking paper and place the roundels on them and let rest for about 30 mins.

Heat oil and make sure the oil is hot enough but not piping hot. Deep fry each roundel for about a minute on both sides and remove them. Should be golden brown on both sides. Once they are cooled, dip them in melted chocolate and decorate them with sugar sprinkles, jimmies or you can simply dust them with powdered sugar/icing sugar.