Doughnuts

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
33 min.	2 hours 30 min.	10 min.	3 hours 13 min.

Step by step recipe

1	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.
2	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.
3	Pour in the yeast leaven liquid and knead on slow speed until the dough is evenly mixed.
4	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.
5	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.
6	Heat the oil to 180°C (360°F) and lower in the doughnuts. Fry until golden brown...
7	...on both sides.
8	Sprinkle the cooked doughnuts with caster sugar.

Remarks

You can also top your doughnuts with fondant icing or chocolate ganache.

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