Description

Traditional Italian donuts
I already told you about the feast of St. Giuseppe, which is celebrated in Italy on March 19. This day is considered to cover a generous table for everyone. Share another recipe of typical dishes from that table.

Ingredients

  • Chicken egg

    6 piece

  • Flour

    175 g

  • Milk

    250 ml

  • Sugar

    130 g

  • Butter

    75 g

  • Water

    250 g

  • Lemon

    1 piece

  • Vanilla

    0.5 piece

  • Vegetable oil

  • Cherry

  • Powdered sugar

  • Salt

Cooking

step-0
To prepare the products.
step-1
To prepare the custard: heat in a saucepan the milk with the vanilla pod, previously to cut and scrape the seeds there.
step-2
At this time mix with a whisk 3 egg yolks with sugar.
step-3
Add 25 g sifted flour or corn starch. Mix well, avoiding formation of lumps.
step-4
Of warm milk remove the vanilla pod and gradually add the milk into the egg-flour mixture is well stirred, preventing the formation of lumps.
step-5
Return mixture to saucepan and on low heat boil down the cream until thick, stirring constantly. Ready cream to tighten with cling film, preventing severiana, and cool.
step-6
To prepare the choux pastry: heat in a saucepan, 250 ml. of water with a pinch of salt and 70 g of butter, cut into pieces.
step-7
As soon as the oil or water will start to form bubbles, turn off the heat, add 150 g sifted flour and mix vigorously with a wooden spatula.
step-8
To turn on the fire and mix the dough with spatula on low heat until a smooth lump of dough.
step-9
Move the wad of dough in a bowl, add the sugar and lemon zest. Mix well. You can use the mixer.
step-10
In the process of mixing add one egg, knead the dough until smooth.
step-11
The dough is ready transfer to a piping bag and parchment paper squeeze, helical movement from the city center, 2 rings superimposed on each other with the "bottom". Send the resulting blank in the oven preheated to 180 C for 5 minutes so that the dough is "grabbed". So it will be easier to lower the workpiece in the fryer. Sometimes each billet is extruded on a separate square of parchment and dipped in the fryer at once with the paper, whereupon the paper is removed with forceps.
step-12
Heat the oil for deep frying. Fry a few doughnuts at a time until Golden brown, remove with a slotted spoon and spread on paper towels to rid of excess fat.
step-13
Fill a pastry bag the cooled custard. Squeeze the cream into the center of each doughnut.
step-14
The middle of each doughnut with the cream garnish with cherry.
step-15
When serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
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