American donut - a small masterpiece!
Appetizing rings under a layer of bright glaze, with aromatic sprinkles and a delicate taste. Or sweet-topped donuts?
Let's cook different! There are proven and simple recipes.
American Donuts - General Cooking Principles
For donuts, yeast dough is most often used. From it, the products are porous, lush, light. But there are accelerated recipes for rippers. One of them is a little lower.
The main ingredients of the test:
• eggs;
• flour;
• milk products;
• yeast or cultivators.
Little sugar is added to the dough; the main flavor is given to the American donuts by filling or icing. The dough is started quite steeply, rolled out with a rolling pin, donuts or circles are cut out. Products are deep-fried. But it’s fashionable to bake donuts in the oven. They turn out less greasy, have a slightly different taste, more like buns.
Decorating the finished donuts is an important part, but optional. You can simply sprinkle fragrant rings with powder with vanilla or sweet cocoa powder. But real donuts are covered with colored glaze, decorated with sprinkles.
American milk donuts
The recipe for American donuts (donuts) on milk and fresh yeast. If you want to replace it with a dry product, take three times less yeast.
Ingredients
• 2 yolks;
• 250 ml of milk;
• a pound of flour;
• oil 40 g (drain);
• sugar 60 g;
• salt 1 tsp. without tubercle;
• 30 g pressed yeast;
• a bag of vanilla.
Cooking
1. Pressed yeast should be crushed, pour warm milk and leave for a few minutes.
2. Once the lumps dissolve, add sugar and salt, stir.
3. Melt the butter, and also add to the yeast mass. Add vanilla.
4. It remains to add flour. It must be sieved to make the yeast dough light and soft. Mix thoroughly.
5. We shift into a large bowl, cover with a cloth.
6. Leave for an hour.
7. Roll out the layer about one centimeter, squeeze out donuts with a glass, make a small hole. These donuts are 8 cm in diameter, with a hole of about 2 centimeters. When frying, they will increase.
8. We shift all the donuts to the dusted surface, let stand for about ten minutes.
9. It's time to put the oil. Pour half a liter into the pan, heat.
10. Cook the donuts until golden brown, they are fried quickly.
11. Transfer to a tissue to remove residual oil. Then cool, glaze.
American donuts on kefir (sour milk, yogurt)
As the name already shows, any fermented milk product will do for such American donuts. But if it is too liquid, you will have to add more flour, bringing the dough to the desired state.
Ingredients
• egg;
• 5 g of soda;
• 20 ml of oil (growing in the dough);
• 4 tablespoons of sugar;
• 250 g of kefir;
• 2.5 cups flour + - 0.5 cups;
• a pinch of salt.
You will also need about 300 g of vegetable oil or other fat at your discretion to fry donuts.
Cooking
1. Pour kefir or another suitable drink into a bowl and leave it warm for half an hour.
2. Add soda, shake with a whisk.
3. It's time to break the egg, pour sugar, a little salt. Shake the whisk again.
4. Add flour with vegetable oil. You can pour vanilla on request.
5. Knead the usual dough, as for pies. In general, he does not need to stand, like a yeast dough. But it’s better to let half an hour lie down. This will make it more elastic, easy to use.
6. Sprinkle flour on the table, lay the dough and sprinkle on top.
7. Roll the rolling cake with a rolling pin. Thickness up to 1.5 centimeters.
8. Squeeze out the mug or cup. Make holes with a small tube.
9. Pour oil or put fat in a pan, warm.
10. Spread a few donuts, fry on each side for a minute, remove on napkins.
11. Sprinkle with powder or glaze. Sweets recipes can be found below.
American donuts in the oven (yeast dough)
Another recipe for yeast donuts in milk, but these items are baked in the oven. These donuts are not as fatty as fried ones. Glaze is better placed on a dry surface, you can decorate donuts with any cream and even put figures of mastic on them. It will turn out miniature cakes.
Ingredients
• 200 ml of milk;
• 1 spoon (without tubercle) of dry yeast;
• 2 eggs;
• 0.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• 1 pinch of nutmeg;
• 4 cups flour;
• 2 tablespoons oils;
• fine salt.
Cooking
1. Make a regular yeast dough. Dissolve the granules in warm milk. Leave on for a couple of minutes.
2. Add all other ingredients. Place the eggs in the dough not completely. Leave one yolk to grease the donuts before baking. Be sure to melt the butter, mix into the dough at the very end.
3. Cover. Leave to approach in a warm place.
4. Since the products are baked in the oven, the dough should rise at least twice. It will take at least three hours.
5. Roll the dough into a layer up to two centimeters.
6. Squeeze out the donuts, do not forget about the inner hole.
7. Place on a baking sheet, leaving a space between the rings. Let stand warm for 20 minutes.
8. Grease with egg yolk, bake until cooked. To prevent donuts from drying out, immediately set a high temperature of 200-210 ° C.
American donuts stuffed
Initially, there was no hole in the donuts. Americans deep-fried round products, which were filled with sweet creams, fruit jams, fragrant pastes. The dough in this recipe is yeast in water. You can use any filling.
Ingredients
• 100 g margarine;
• 180 g of water;
• 500 g flour;
• 1 egg;
• 6 g of dry yeast;
• 2 l. Sahara;
• any filling (cream, jam, condensed milk, fruit puree).
Cooking
1. Knead the dough. Dissolve yeast in warm water. Melt margarine separately, let cool.
2. Add sugar to the bulk, salt, add margarine with flour. Knead plain dough, not liquid, but not cool.
3. Let him rise well. Once is enough.
4. Roll a thick cake about two centimeters.
5. Preheat the deep fat fryer.
6. Squeeze out a glass of small cakes, throw into hot oil, fry until beautiful crust. Products will be inflated, like koloboks.
7. Take out with a slotted spoon, spread in one layer, so as not to wrinkle.
8. Mash the filling well so that there are no lumps. Transfer to a confectionery syringe, fill the cooled donuts inside.
9. If there is no syringe, then you can make a small hole on the side, through it lay the sweet mass with a small spoon.
10. Top with donuts with filling can also be decorated or just sprinkled with sweet powder, cocoa powder.
American Chocolate Donuts
Donuts can be prepared according to any of the recipes above, they are all suitable for glaze decoration. After frying, immediately remove the oil with napkins so that the coating lies evenly.
Ingredients
• 200 g of dark chocolate;
• 10 g butter;
• 20 g of fat cream;
• pastry topping, chocolate chips.
Cooking
1. Crush the chocolates into cubes, put them in a bowl and place in a water bath.
2. Add vegetable oil, cream. Melt everything together, stir constantly so that the icing does not overheat.
3. Once all the lumps disappear, you can turn off the stove, but do not remove the cup from the bath.
4. In a bowl, sprinkle a sprinkle of confectionery, spread paper towels nearby.
5. Dip the donuts on one side of the chocolate.
6. Immediately, until the icing has hardened, decorate with a sprinkle. Or chocolate, coconut. Amazing donuts are obtained with crushed and fried nuts.
7. Lay on paper towels in a single layer, leave for a quarter of an hour to set. If the room is hot, you can transfer the products to the refrigerator.
American donuts with colored glaze
Another glaze for American donuts. You can paint the mass in any color or leave white. Dyes can be used any food: liquid, dry, confectionery gels. But when adding powders, they still need to be diluted so that the color disperses evenly.
Ingredients
• 220 g of powder;
• 3 tablespoons of milk;
• 1 spoon of lemon juice;
• dyes.
Cooking
1. Sift the powder into a bowl. It should not have large lumps and particles.
2. Pour two tablespoons of milk first, stir thoroughly with a spatula.
3. Once all the milk has been absorbed, add lemon juice and color, continue stirring for a couple of minutes.
4. It's time to evaluate the consistency. If the glaze is thick, you can add more milk dropwise until it becomes smooth, slightly flowing.
5. Dip or coat the donuts with a sweet mass. It is very important that they are warm, then the frosting will harden faster.
6. Place on a paper-covered surface. Decorate donuts with sprinkles. Leave to set for at least 30 minutes.
American Donuts - Tips & Tricks
• To prevent donuts from being oiled and greasy, run prepared rings only in well-warmed butter. Readiness is determined by a small piece of dough. If at start hissing bubbles appear around it, then the oil is ready to go.
• If it is not possible to make icing to decorate donuts, then you can always buy a finished product. You can find the icing in the departments for baking.
• If soda is added to the dough, it is always quenched with acid. If a baking powder is used for a recipe, then it is added directly to the flour.
