For the starter:
40 g fresh yeast
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsp sugar
1,5-2 Tbsp flour
20 ml milk, slightly heated
To prepare the starter mix all ingredients and leave covered until it rises.
Dough:
450 g flour
1/4 l milk
4 egg yolks
1 vanilla sugar
zest of 1 lemon, grated
60 ml oil
Place flour on a working surface, make a hole in the middle, pour yeast, egg yolks, vanilla sugar and milk. Work the dough by hitting it with a spoon. Gradually, pour the oil and continue to hit the dough until it separates from the spoon by itself. Leave covered to rise and then hit it few more times. Flatten the dough with rolling pin (dough should be about 1 cm high), cut out donuts with a glass and leave to rise some more.
Deep fry in hot oil. When frying, make sure you put donuts in oil the same side they laid on the table. Place fried donuts on a paper towel, so it absorbs oil.
Sprinkle with caster sugar.
Note: This is a part of Time to Make the Donuts event hosted by Peabody and Tartlette (batch 1 & batch 2). Visit their blogs for over a 100 donuts recipes!
10 Comments
These look fantastic! You could enter them in the event I am hosting Time To Make The Doughnuts.
Hi Marija,It’s Vida here from Australia, I wanted to ask you about the donuts… how much flour do you put with the yeast??? What is the temperature for the oil to fry them in??? Do you put the whole 1 cup of oil into the flour mix??? Thanks, this recipe is just like my mother used to make and I never got the chance to ask her for the recipe so I am VERY happy you put the recipe on your site and I can now try it… thanks Vida x x
P.S. did you warm the milk that you add to the yeast??? Vida x
Marija, did you warm the milk that you added to the yeast??? Mine has not risen at all and I expected it to start bubbling up… Vida x
Hi Vida, I have made some corrections to the recipe, thanks to your suggestions. I forgot that in different parts of the world 1 cup means different quantity. What I meant was one small coffee cup (you can probably remember back from Serbia ;)). As for the oil temperature… Heat oil very much, and when you put the dough in for frying the oil should make the same sound as when you’re frying a steak. (Što bi se ovde reklo, ulje treba da cvrči kad spustiš testo u njega.)
Hi Marija, I tried the donuts and they tasted like my mothers but no as soft as hers… I did put TOO much oil, a BIG cup 250ml and after I thought it must be a coffee cup (little) anyway I will try them again. Thank you for all your help and I am SOOOOOO happy I found you because you are my link to home!!! Vida x x x
Beautiful doughnuts!
Thanks so much for particpating.
These look delicious! Great job!
Oooooh. Donut. They look fabulous!
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