The recipe for classic donuts

Donuts are a delicacy known in many countries of the world under different names. Who and when came up with donuts is not known. There is a statement that they were prepared in ancient Rome. The recipe for donuts has many varieties, it depends on taste preferences, national characteristics and, after all, the creative flight of the culinary thought. A classic donut is a fried in a sunflower oil dough ring sprinkled with sugar or powdered sugar.

Other recipes allow deviations from traditions, both in composition and in form. Donuts can have a filling in the form of cottage cheese, fruits, vegetables and even meat. And so consider the classic recipe for cooking.

Donuts are made from yeast dough for cooking, which we will need wheat flour of higher grade, fresh yeast (preferably pressed, not "fast"), warm milk, sugar, melted butter, salt. To start, you need to dilute the yeast and make them "work" that affects the "splendor" of donuts. To do this, 200 grams of yeast should be poured with warm milk or warm boiled water and add a tablespoon of sugar, dissolve the yeast and put it in a warm place for 30-40 minutes. It should be recalled - do not allow yeast to contact with hot water, yeast is a living microorganism and like all living things they die at high temperature. While the yeast is activated, you can prepare the flour. 500 gr. Flour should be carefully sifted through a sieve to avoid lumps and laxity and enrichment with oxygen.

Next, you need to boil the milk to make a dough. Let the milk cool to the temperature of the steam, the amount of milk is determined by the consistency of the dough. Add in the milk 10-15 gr. melted butter, and in flour 2 tablespoons of sugar without a roller coaster (you can add vanilla or vanilla sugar) and a pinch of salt. Next we begin to knead the dough, pouring in the milk and diluted yeast into the flour. It takes a bit of caution, so that the dough does not turn out too liquid or on the contrary dense. Stir the dough carefully, until a homogeneous mass, not allowing lumps. After that, the dough is superficially "powdered" with flour and placed in heat for "lifting" for about 1 hour.

If everything is correctly done, then after an hour the dough should increase in volume by about 30-50 percent. Now the finished dough is rolled into the rolls of the required thickness, not forgetting that too thick a layer of the dough can be badly fried, otherwise there are no restrictions. Whatever dough does not stick to the board and hands, the board can be sprinkled with flour, and grease your hands with sunflower oil. Kalachiki cut into equal parts, folded in the form of rings on a separate board, covered with a cloth (usually a towel is used for this) and put in heat for about half an hour.

You can fry donuts on sunflower oil or fat, for classic sweet donuts, vegetable oil is preferable. At home, you can fry in a pan or a frying pan with high edges. Oils in cookware for frying should be so much that it would completely cover the donuts. To begin with, the oil must be brought to a boil, and it is not advisable to allow it directly during the frying process. The time of frying varies depending on what thickness of the dough, for this the optimal option is chosen by "trial and error." First, fry one donut, according to the results you can accurately determine the optimal time interval. Sprinkle the finished donuts with sugar powder. Now you can enjoy the miracle of your culinary creation!