Doughnuts
Yeasted doughnuts fried until puffy and golden with the telltale pale ring around the middle, then dipped in a sugar glaze or piped with jam. Holding the oil at 175°C is what keeps them light rather than greasy.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 500 g plain flour
- 7 g fast-action dried yeast
- 60 g sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 250 ml milk, lukewarm
- 2 eggs
- 60 g butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1.5 l sunflower oil, for frying
- 200 g icing sugar, for the glaze
- 3 tbsp milk, for the glaze
- 200 g jam, for filling (optional)
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 17447 kcal · P 77.2g · C 796.8g · F 1575.1g
Estimated from 12 of 12 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Mix the flour, yeast, sugar and salt in a large bowl. Add the lukewarm milk (about 37°C — hotter kills the yeast), the eggs and vanilla, and knead for 5 minutes.
- 2Add the soft butter a little at a time and knead for another 8–10 minutes until the dough is smooth, elastic and pulls away from the bowl; it will be soft and slightly tacky.
- 3Cover and leave in a warm place for 60–90 minutes until doubled in size.
- 4Knock back, roll out on a floured surface to 1.5 cm thick and cut rounds with an 8 cm cutter; cut a 3 cm hole in the centre of those you will glaze and leave the ones for jam whole.
- 5Set them on squares of floured baking paper, cover loosely and prove for 30–40 minutes until puffy and a gently pressed finger leaves a dent that springs back slowly.
- 6Heat the oil in a deep pan to 175°C. Use a thermometer — cooler oil makes greasy doughnuts, hotter oil browns them before the middle cooks.
- 7Fry 3–4 at a time for about 1 minute per side until deep golden, with a pale ring around the middle. Lift out with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.
- 8Whisk the icing sugar with the 3 tbsp milk to a thick, smooth glaze and dip the ring doughnuts in it while still warm; leave on a rack for 10 minutes to set.
- 9For the filled doughnuts, poke a hole in the side with a skewer and pipe in the jam once they have cooled slightly.
Questions and answers
How long does Doughnuts take to make?
About 65 minutes: 40 min prep and 25 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Doughnuts?
11 ingredients: plain flour, fast-action dried yeast, sugar, salt, milk, eggs, butter, vanilla extract, sunflower oil, icing sugar, jam.
How many servings does this Doughnuts recipe make?
12 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Doughnuts?
About 1454 kcal, with 6.4 g protein, 66.4 g carbohydrate and 131.3 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Doughnuts recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
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