Lucumas

Description

Lucumas - donuts, which are very popular in Greece, they are called Lucumas Paralia (Beach donuts), but sell and prepare all year round! Now here begins the Carnival, the brother of our carnival, in the parks and local festivals will establish a doughnut shop machines and people will enjoy donuts with honey and sugar! To make the doughnuts will be from yeast dough cooked in a cold way. I prefer the lean version but replacing water for milk, and vegetable oil for butter, you can bake more than sweet doughnuts. Donuts are obtained with a delicate crispy crust and airy crumb, a long time not stale, though, they just don't have time to become stale!

Ingredients

Flour

450 g
Sugar

1 Tbsp
Salt

0.5 tsp
Olive oil

60 g
Vanilla

1 g
Lemon juice

1 Tbsp
Lemon peel

0.5 tsp
Vegetable oil
Yeast

9 g
Water

250 ml

Cooking

Products needed to prepare the dough it is better to measure and weigh in advance. Unfortunately the frame is not included flour and lemon.

Yeast and sugar are well mixed with warm water.

Put in a warm place for a couple of minutes to activate. At the same time and see how they work.

To add to dragaway mixture of salt, lemon zest, vanilla and lemon juice, mix well. Gradually add the flour knead the dough. In two steps to enter the oil and vmese it into the dough. PS Lemon juice, vodka or white vinegar added to the dough so that it does not absorb the fat when frying doughnuts.

Lightly sprinkle the table with flour and knead the dough well, it should be soft and elastic. Place the dough in the bowl, tighten the top with cling film and send in the refrigerator for 1, 5 hours. It's a cold way of preparation of dough. With the dough easy to work with, and when cutting is not necessary to add large amounts of flour. This dough can be frozen, so be prepared for the future and at any time to surprise your loved ones fresh pastries.

We need a felling of 10 and 4 cm in diameter and cut the leaves of baking paper. If not logging, use cups or bowls of a suitable size.

The dough came almost three times.

Work surface very lightly dusted with flour and roll out the dough (I flattened by hand) thickness of 1 cm to Cut down the circles of large diameter.

A little cutting to make a hole inside.

Place the donuts on a slip of paper and put on should stay covered with a towel. Doughnuts increase in volume more than two times.

To do exactly the same with the pieces of dough remaining after cutting. It is very convenient for carrying donuts in the frying process. They do not lose their shape and deform. The paper does not need to be lubricated and do not need to flour them.

Heat the frying oil to 175"C. I prefer corn oil without taste and smell. If you have no thermometer, use the old way to test whether hot oil is to throw a piece of dough - if it quickly floats to the surface and turn brown within 45-60 seconds, the oil is sufficiently warmed up and ready for

In the heated oil to lower the doughnut straight from the paper and literally a few seconds, and remove using tongs.

Fry the doughnuts on both sides until Golden brown.

To remove excess fat, each serving of donuts to be cast away on a paper towel

Do the same thing with small donuts.

The finished doughnuts to cool and roll in sugar. If sugar is bad stick to the surface of the donut, you can very lightly (spray) sprinkle with the flower water.