Doughnuts
Ring doughnuts are a traditional American treat. In the United States they are part of the culture and come plain or with lots of different icings and toppings.
Here is a recipe for plain doughnuts to which you can add your own choice of icing.
Here is a recipe for plain doughnuts to which you can add your own choice of icing.
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Last modified on: September 22th 2013
Keywords for this recipe:For 12 Doughnuts, you will need:
- 1
350 g flour - 2
40 g caster sugar - 3
130 ml Milk - 4
50 g butter - 5
20 g yeast - 6 2 tablespoons caster sugar
- Total weight: 620 grams
How long will it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Resting | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 min. | 2 hours 30 min. | 10 min. | 3 hours 13 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
In a cup mix 20 g yeast with 4 tablespoonsful of warm milk. Leave to ferment for 30 minutes at room temperature.
This makes a yeast-based "leaven" which improves the flavour of the doughnuts.
This makes a yeast-based "leaven" which improves the flavour of the doughnuts.
Stage 2 - 30 min.
After this time, put 40 g caster sugar, 50 g butter and 350 g flour into a food-mixer bowl with the rest of the milk.
Stage 3 - 10 min.
Pour in the yeast leaven liquid and knead on slow speed until the dough is evenly mixed.
Stage 4 - 2 hours
Gather the dough into a ball and put this into a clean bowl. Cover with a plastic sheet and leave to rest for 2 hours at room temperature.
Stage 5 - 20 min.
After this time, roll out the dough and shape the doughnuts as shown in this video. Once they are all on the baking sheet, cover with a plastic sheet again and leave to rest for 1 hour.
Stage 6 - 10 min.
Heat the oil to 180°C (360°F) and lower in the doughnuts. Fry until golden brown...
Stage 7
...on both sides.
Stage 8
Sprinkle the cooked doughnuts with caster sugar.
Remarks
You can also top your doughnuts with fondant icing or chocolate ganache.
And to drink?
A cup of good coffee.
Keeping
1 or 2 days in an airtight tin.
Source
Based on Jamie Oliver's recipe.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 2,024 Kcal or 8,474 Kj | 46 gr | 341 gr | 53 gr |
| 101 % | 18 % | 32 % | 8 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 326 Kcal or 1,365 Kj | 7 gr | 55 gr | 9 gr |
| 16 % | 3 % | 5 % | 1 % |
| Per piece | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 169 Kcal or 708 Kj | 4 gr | 28 gr | 4 gr |
| 8 % | 1 % | 3 % | 1 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 12 Doughnuts : 1.50 €
- Per Doughnuts : 0.13 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Oat shortbread biscuits, Sauce Normande (for fish), Pink Reims biscuits, Caramelized apple and walnut cake, Biscuit de Savoie sponge cake, ... All |
 | Milk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Choux pastry (pâte à choux), Chocolate rolls (petits pains), Pesto crackers, Potato Waffles with Smoked Salmon, Potato gratin, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tea and white chocolate biscuits, Milk rolls, Fish in a sesame crust, Nanou's chocolate cake, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, ... All |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pitta bread, Comtoise apple charlotte, Agen prune cake, Mulled wine Belle-Plagne style, Galette Charentaise, ... All |
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