Homemade Donuts Recipe
Homemade Donuts Recipe | Basic Eggless Doughnuts are a popular treat worldwide enjoyed as a dessert, snack or treat. Freshly made, they’re crisp on the outside, irresistibly soft inside, and simply melt in your mouth..
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- spatula
- Wok or Kadai
Ingredients
(1 cup = 250 ml)
- 125 gm all-purpose flour + more for dusting
- 30 gm sugar powdered
- 15 gm salted butter+ a bit more
- 10 gm milk powder
- 75 ml milk
- Pinch of salt
- Water use as needed
- ¼ tsp Instant yeast
- ½ tsp vanilla essence
- Oil for frying
For Decoration
- To Dust - Mix of powdered sugar
- To Drizzle -Melted white chocolate
Instructions
Make Dough and First Rise
- Firstly, in a bowl, add lukewarm milk, sugar and yeast. Mix and keep aside for yeast to activate.
- In another mix bowl add all-purpose flour, salt and milk powder.
- Now add the activated yeast-sugar-milk solution to the flour and mix it well. Add vanilla essence.
- You may continue to mix with spatula or mix with hand. Add water if needed.
- Then add butter (keep some butter for later) and mix well to make a soft dough.
- Now transfer onto work surface and dust with some all-purpose flour. Knead to make a smooth soft dough. Add remaining butter as needed.
- Form a smooth dough ball, apply oil, cover and keep it in a warm place for first proofing for 40 minutes or till dough doubles in size
Shape Donuts and Second Rise
- After an hour when the dough has almost doubled in size punch it down to knock out air.
- Roll out the dough to ½” thickness sheet and shape donuts with donut cutter.
- Place them in a tray with sufficient gaps to allow them to rise. Keep them covered for 20 minutes or so. The donuts will increase in size.
Fry Donuts
- In the meanwhile, heat oil. Fry the donuts in medium hot oil till they turn light brown on both sides.
- Fry donuts in batches of two or three. Avoid overcrowding in the oil. Once fried let them cool.
Toppings
- Once considerably cooled down, you might dust them with powdered sugar. Alternatively, when donuts cool down completely, drizzle streaks of melted chocolate over them.
- Enjoy with family and friends
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Notes
- Since it is instant yeast, you could add everything directly to the flour, instead of activating the yeast.
- Add some flour if dough is too sticky to handle.
- Alternatively, you could bake them in a preheated oven.