Papanasi
Romania's best-loved dessert — fried doughnuts of fresh curd cheese, each a ring crowned with a small ball, served hot with sour cream and sour cherry jam. A dry, crumbly cheese needs little flour, and little flour means tender doughnuts.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 500 g dry curd cheese
- 2 eggs
- 50 g sugar
- 1 tsp lemon zest, finely grated
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 200 g plain flour
- 2 tbsp plain flour, for shaping
- 1 l sunflower oil, for frying
- 300 g sour cream
- 250 g sour cherry jam
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 13186 kcal · P 164.3g · C 426g · F 1220.6g
Estimated from 12 of 12 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1If the cheese is wet, hang it in a cloth for 30 minutes, then press it through a sieve or mash it with a fork until no large lumps remain.
- 2Mix the cheese with the eggs, sugar, lemon zest, vanilla, salt and bicarbonate of soda.
- 3Add the flour gradually and mix into a soft, slightly sticky dough, using only as much as it needs to hold together — too much flour makes them dense.
- 4Divide into 6 portions and pinch a piece the size of a walnut off each. With floured hands, flatten each large piece into a disc 2 cm thick, poke a hole in the centre and widen it into a ring; roll the small pieces into balls.
- 5Heat the oil in a deep pan to 160–170°C — cooler than for ordinary doughnuts, so the centre cooks through before the outside darkens.
- 6Fry the rings for 3–4 minutes on each side and the balls for 2–3 minutes, until deep golden, and drain on kitchen paper.
- 7Serve hot: set a ring on each plate, spoon sour cream and jam over it, top with a ball and add a little more of each.
Questions and answers
How long does Papanasi take to make?
About 55 minutes: 30 min prep and 25 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Papanasi?
11 ingredients: dry curd cheese, eggs, sugar, lemon zest, vanilla extract, salt, bicarbonate of soda, plain flour, sunflower oil, sour cream, sour cherry jam.
How many servings does this Papanasi recipe make?
6 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Papanasi?
About 2198 kcal, with 27.4 g protein, 71 g carbohydrate and 203.4 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Papanasi recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Papanasi?
Papanasi comes from Romanian cuisine.
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