photo: panistefa.com
We offer Pani Stefa’s recipe of grated donuts – simple and delicious, but not fast. «Grated» – because for this grind butter, sugar and egg yolks. Very similar to the poppy cake.
Pani Stefa is a food blogger writing about Galicia cuisine. Ukrainian Galicia–different from the Galician region of Spain–is an ancient region and formerly a kingdom, of which Lviv is the major city. Many Leopolitans identify themselves as Galician, a subculture within Ukraine with its own music, dialect, and cuisine. Galicians tend to be Greek Catholic, in communion with Rome but in style of the Orthodox east, which means they celebrate Christmas Day 7 January.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of flour
- yeast stick (100 g)
- half a liter of milk
- half a pack of oil
- 150-200 grams of sugar (depending on whether you want sweeter or fresher)
- half a teaspoon of salt
- half a glass of vodka or 2 tablespoons of alcohol
- 8-10 yolks (or 8 yolks and 2 whole eggs)
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vanilla sugar, grated lemon peel or orange
Grind butter with sugar until it becomes white, then add one egg yolk and rub to dissolve the sugar, add vanilla sugar and lemon zest. Separately, dilute the yeast with warm milk, give a spoonful of sugar and a few spoonfuls of flour – let it dissolve.
Sift the flour into a large bowl, and pour the solution into the flour as soon as it ferments. Combine all the mentioned elements, then add the solution and grated egg yolks with sugar in a bowl with flour, salt it, add vodka and knead the dough. It should turn out soft but lag behind the hands.
Put a bowl of dough in a warm place to grow, cover with a towel. Walk on your toes in order not to disturb it.
«I make donuts like this: I roll out a layer of dough, then cut circles with a glass, put it in the middle of the filling and cover it with a second circle, and then glue it around the perimeter. Or – to melt a layer of dough – to spread fillings, such as cherries, over the half of it in a «square-nesting way», cover with the other half of the dough, and cut donuts with a glass,» – Mrs. Stefa explains in her blog.
As the dough grows 2 times in its volume – knead it again and make donuts. Arrange the donuts on the table, cover and let rise again, and only then you can fry. If you don’t allow them to grow – will increase strongly during frying, and may crack. Before frying, remove excess flour from each donut, especially from the bottom – then it will burn less in the tub.
The donuts should be fried in well-heated oil (180 degrees), but the fire under the bath should be small. The frying pan should be wide enough and preferably with a rough bottom, put a divider well under the bottom so that the heating was even. In a jar with oil, add carrots, cut in half lengthwise – it will absorb all the soot. There should be enough donuts for one frying session so that they float freely and grow a little more.
Dip the donuts in oil on the growing side (top), immediately cover with a tire for 2-3 minutes, and if they have fried on one side – immediately turn them over and no longer cover. Remove the fried donuts on a tray lined with paper towels to remove excess oil. Fried and cooled donuts are powdered with «powdered sugar».
«Most of all, I like donuts with rose or cherry. But once I was treated to a donut with (attention!) banana – and it’s divine. So don’t be afraid to experiment,» – the Galician blogger adds.
Translated by Vitalii Holich
You can read a Ukrainian language version of this story here.
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