Home made doughnut

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Doughnut or donut is a small fried cake of sweetened dough, typically in the shape of a ball or ring.
There are mainly two types of doughnuts
  1. Yeast doughnut
  2. Cake doughnut
Actually doughnut can be made in different shapes. Doughnuts are first either fried or baked and then topped with some glazing and can be filled with some jam or custard or cream.

National Doughnut Day, celebrated in the United States of America, is on the first Friday of June each year.
Coming to the recipe...

Ingredients:

  • Water -1/2 cup(lukewarm)
  • Active dry yeast - 1.5 tsp
  • All purpose flour - 3 cup
  • Sugar - 1/2 cup
  • Salt - 1 tsp
  • Yogurt - 1/2 cup (at room temperature)
  • Egg - 1 (at room temperature)
  • Oil/ Melted Butter - 1/4 cup
  • Oil for frying 

 Method:

Take 1/2 cup lukewarm water. Add 1 tbsp sugar and  1.5 tsp yeast to it. Keep it aside for 10 minutes until it blooms.
( Note: 1.Water must be lukewarm or slightly warm. If water is too hot it will kill the yeast and the yeast won't rise up.
2. Here sugar works as a catalyst, which enhances the yeast blooming reaction)





Place the dry ingredients(flour, sugar, salt) in a bowl.
Thoroughly beat the egg.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, then pour in the yeast mixture,egg, yogurt, melted butter or oil..

Knead well for about 10 minutes.

Cover and set aside for 2 hours or until the dough get at least doubled in size.
 Once the dough has doubled, place it on a floured surface and knead lightly. Divide it in half, keeping half the dough covered, so it doesn’t form a skin. With a rolling pin, roll out half of the dough to about ½″ thickness. Cut with a doughnut cutter. Actually I don't have any doughnut cutter or cookie cutters. I have DIY doughnut cutter . Have a look at these DIY doughnut cutter.

 I made large circles with the lid of peanut butter can and small holes are made using mouth of mineral water bottle.
Heat oil in a pan.(Add enough oil, otherwise doughnut get burn's here and there. Also, once the oil becomes hot, switch the flame to low.)
Fry the doughnuts till golden colour.



 

For Glaze:

Sugar glaze:

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 3 tablespoons milk or water
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 
Stir in milk and vanilla essence to the powdered sugar slowly.

Chocolate glaze: 

  • Semisweet chocolate chips - 1/2 cup
Melt chocolate chips using a double boiler.

Preparation:

After the doughnut get cooled, dip top half of each doughnut into glaze. Quickly invert so that glaze is on top.


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