Donuts
Description
Tasty baked goods for the whole family. There's nothing difficult about making Italian doughnuts. But you need to have some culinary skills. And if you're not yet familiar with yeast dough and don't know how to make pastry cream, the recipe describes everything in detail and shows it in photos. Cornstarch in the cream can be replaced with wheat flour. Fresh yeast can be easily substituted with dry yeast, using three times less. These doughnuts are worthy of a festive table. Serve them hot Serve them warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for making donuts.
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Step 2
Place the yeast in a bowl.
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Step 3
Pour in warm milk. Add salt, sugar and sunflower oil.
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Step 4
Add the sifted flour.
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Step 5
Knead a soft, elastic dough. Cover it with plastic wrap and place it in a warm spot.
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Step 6
In an hour to an hour and a half, the dough will increase in volume two to three times.
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Step 7
But while the dough is rising, prepare the custard. Pour the milk into a saucepan and place it on the stove.
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Step 8
In a bowl, mix the yolks, sugar, and corn starch.
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Step 9
When the milk begins to boil, pour the mixture of egg yolks, sugar, and starch into it. Constantly stirring, bring the cream to a thickened consistency. Sprinkle in the vanilla sugar and cool the cream.
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Step 10
Remove the dough from the bowl, pat it together and roll it out into a sheet about 1 cm thick. Using a glass, cut out circles with a diameter of 6–7 cm.
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Step 11
Cover the dough cups with plastic wrap and let them rest for 35–40 minutes.
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Step 12
After a while, the little rounds will increase significantly in size and will be ready for frying.
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Step 13
Pour refined sunflower oil into a pot. Heat it well and pour in the dough.
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Step 14
Fry the donuts in oil on both sides until golden brown. Then place them on a plate lined with paper towel.
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Step 15
In each donut, make a side cut and, using a teaspoon, fill the donuts with pastry cream.
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Step 16
Dust the donuts with powdered sugar and serve.
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Step 17
Italian doughnuts are ready. They are very tasty with tea, coffee, or compote!