I have been feeling quite lazy for the past few days. I had cold, so i was taking my pills. It made me feel dizzy always and i couldn’t properly cook. This made me go out of recipes ,Usually i will have more than 10 recipes on drafts, but now i have only couple of them. That too is a kozhukattai recipe which i made for ganesh chaturthi. I didn’t feel like posting them now. So yesterday, i took all my energy and decided to do my long time wanted recipe, a jelly donut and spain churros with chocolate dipping sauce. I made them too.
I wanted to post these baby first because i am telling you, this is one of the best doughnut recipe ever. It was soft and fluffy, just perfect. I already posted a eggless donut recipe, but this one hit the spot and it is so much better than that. Now i have made clear that this is doing to be my go to donut recipe. I will be making it quite often too..
Resting Time : 2 Hours
Cooking Time : 2 to 3 mins per batch
Makes : 20 small donuts
Recipe Source: Laurainthekitchen
All Purpose Flour / Maida – 2.5 cups / 300 grams
Sugar – 3 tblspn
Egg – 1
Warm Milk – 3/4 cup / 180 ml
Yeast – 2 tsp
Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp
Unsalted Butter – 4 tblspn melted
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Oil for Deep frying
Jam or Preserves – 1.5 cups
For Cinnamon Sugar :
Granulated Sugar – 1 cup ( powdered)
Cinnamon Powder – 2 tblspn
Method:
Start by activating yeast. Take yeast in a bowl, add in 1 tsp of sugar and 3 to 4 tblspn of warm milk. Leave it aside for 5 mins till the yeast is foamy and bubbles up.
Now take egg, sugar, vanilla,, milk, salt in a large mixing bowl and beat it well so the sugar is melted.
Now add in the foamed yeast mix and mix well.
Add in flour and mix well with a spoon and knead it to form a dough. It will be a soft, non sticky dough. Cover the dough with a cling wrap and leave it to rise for 1 hour (In colder region it may take 2 to 3 hours)
Once it is doubled in size, punch the air out and transfer the dough to a floured work surface. Roll the dough to 1 ot 2 cm thickness. Use a cookie cutter to cut out rounds.
Now place the cutouts in a floured tray and cover again and let it rise for 30 to 45 mins. Use the leftover scraps to keep on rolling.
Now Heat oil for deep frying, Once the oil is hot, drop the donuts and fry till golden on both sides, it will take just couple of mins.
Once fried remove them to a paper towel. Once all the donuts is fried, make cinnamon sugar, mix cinnamon and powdered sugar.
Dip the fried donuts in cinnamon sugar and roll them well.
Now for filling the donuts, take jam or preserve in a microwave safe bowl to warm it slightly. I microwave it for 20 sec.
Now fill a piping bag with the jam. take a donut, make a slit using a knife on the side of the donut. Insert the piping bag and give a good squeeze.
You can roll them on cinnamon sugar second time too.
Serve warm.
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| Take your ingredients |
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| Take yeast in a bowl |
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| Add a tsp of sugar |
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| Add few tblspn of warm milk, let it sit till it gets foamy |
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| Now the yeast is activated, so you can proceed with the next step.. |
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| Crack open a egg in a large bowl |
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| add some sugar to it |
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| Add in some vanilla |
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| and some melted butter |
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| Add in salt |
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| Warm milk |
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| the activated yeast mix |
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| Mix well |
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| Add in flour |
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| Mix well so it gets together |
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| Knead it to a soft dough |
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| cover it and let it rise |
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| Now it is double in size |
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| punch the air out |
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| transfer it to a floured surface |
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| roll it into 2 cm thickness |
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| Use a cookie cutter to cut out rounds |
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| Cut it like this |
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| remove the leftover dough so you are left with the cutouts |
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| perfect |
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| re roll the scraps and make more doughnuts |
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| Place these in a floured plate or tray |
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| cover it with plastic wrap and let it rise again |
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| Look now they are double in size |
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| Heat oil for deep frying |
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| Once it is hot, drop the doughnuts in, dont crowd the pan |
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| Once they are golden on one side, flip them and cook on other side too |
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| Remove them to a plate |
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| Now for cinnamon sugar, take some powdered sugar in a bowl, i took regular white sugar in a blender and powdered it finely |
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| Add a good amount of cinnamon |
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| mix well |
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| Take a donut and coat them |
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| now all coated |
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| Now for the jelly part, take your fav jam or preserve in a microwave safe bowl, |
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| I microwave it for 20 to 30 sec to warm them slightly |
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| I filled a piping bag with this |
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| make a hole using a knife |
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| pipe the jam in |
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| now it is piped |
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| i rolled once more in the cinnamon sugar |
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| TADA |
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| Enjoy this warm, it is so yum.. |
Wow the jam filled doughnut looks awesome. You have used the new prop so well Aarthi.
Nice one…
Tempting to try tat….
Super yummy. …
Appreciate u r eforts…looks very yummy too…
Hope you feel better! Haven't make jam donuts for a long time, it used to my kids favourite snack!
Can u please suggest any alternative to the egg used
Any replacement for yeast ?
How much time it takes to rise ?
@AnonymousIt depends on each climatic condition. In cooler place, it takes longer. In hot place it takes less time.
@AnonymousSorry no alternative for yeast
@PoppyYou can use couple tblpsn of curd instead of egg
Help me out in buying a good yeast…. blue bird is found useless…. pls help
@jemimaYes u can use
Thnx Aarthi for the recipe…tried it but didn't come well as in your pic.some of them were hollow inside like pani puri.I don't understand what went wrong.is it because the thickness want not correct? Pls advise
@Anonymousu must have made it too think i think so.
can v skip cinnamon powder?? does it bring any change in taste??
@Anonymousu can skip cinnamon