Homemade Doughnuts
Easy, tasty, soft and fluffy homemade doughnuts recipe, perfect for a quick treat, made with just few ingredients.
Ingredients
- 600 - 650 g all purpose flour
- 25 g fresh yeast or 7g dry yeast
- 250 ml warm milk
- 100 g white sugar
- 80 g melted butter
- 2 eggs
- Zest of a lemon& orange
- Vanilla essence
- Pinch of salt
- Oil for frying
Instructions
- Before you start melt the butter for few seconds in the microwave or take out from fridge with few hours before.
- TIP: If you want your homemade doughnut to be fluffy sift the flour.
- Put the milk in a bowl in a mixer bowl, is up to you.
- Add the yeast, sugar and the zests of lemon and orange. Mix it with a whisk to dissolve it, the warm milk will help. Leave it aside for 10-15 mins so the yeast will activate, cover with a kitchen towel and leave it in a warm place.
- Now add the salt, vanilla essence, the melted butter, the eggs and mix all using the whisk.
- Incorporate the flour with a spatula and when the dough is formed use your hand and knead the dough for 10minutes.
- The dough needs to be soft and sticky so your homemade doughnuts will be fluffy.
- Before you finish incorporate a spoon of oil and knead it for 1-2 minutes. You can also put few drops of oil in the bowl to don`t stick.
- Cover the bowl with cling film and let it rise for 60 minutes in warm place.
- Divide the dough in 2 sprinkle some flour on the worktop and spread a sheet of dough about 2 cm thick (not thin).
- Sprinkle some flour on top of the sheet too and also on the side where you`ll put them once cut.
- As my mum taught us take a big mug and cut the doughnuts. Put them by side and leave another 30 mins to rise covered with cling film. Keep going until you finish all the dough.
- In a skillet put some oil, more than usual. It needs to be warm, medium heat but not hot. Fry them for about 3-4 minutes on each side or until you`re happy with the outcome.
- When the doughnuts are done take them out on a paper tissue and after put them in a bowl and sprinkle some powder sugar on the fried doughnuts.
- Carry on until you finish all of the doughnuts.
- Hope you`ll try as I`m sure you`ll love them.
- Enjoy 😊