donuts, Donuts and more Donuts!!!! Like most other people, I too am Mad over Donuts !!! But due to unavailability of good donuts at frequently affordable prices, I decided to make them myself. To add to the occasion was Gaurav's birthday too ! So one fine evening I set out collecting the ingredients, searching for appropriate recipes, making my own changes to the finalised recipes and coming out with my OWN recipe, arranging the stuff in the kitchen and finally begin the process of making delectable donuts !!!
Ingredients:
1 1/4 Active Dry Yeast (Caution: Smells BAD !! )
60 ml Warm Milk ( 40' C )
Li'l more than 1 tbsp Non-Salted Butter ( I used Margarine )
67 ml Sugar
1 Egg
500 ml Maida (flour)
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp each of Powdered Nutmeg and Cinnamon
Few drops of Vanilla Essence
Procedure:
- Place 50 ml of the warm milk in a bowl and add the yeast therein. Set aside for five to ten minutes or so. Make sure you check the temperature of the milk. Hot milk will kill the yeast.
- Mix the butter and sugar with the remaining milk. Add this to the yeast mixture.
- Stir in the eggs, flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt and vanilla essence. The mixture will thicken. Mix the dough well.
- If the dough gets very sticky, add a li'l dough and if its too dry , then add li'l milk.
- Knead the dough well and shape it into a ball. Keep in a buttered bowl for a few hours for the yeast to rise to nearly double the size.
- Punch the dough and knead it further. Make flat 1/2 inch flat rounds and cut small circles with a rounded vessel ( a cup or glass would do too ). Let the donuts rise for another hour or so.
- Take the rounds and stuff chocolate chunks in them. Cover the round dough around the chocolate pieces and make a ball. Try flattening them and place the don
uts into a butter-paper lined baking tray. - Bake for around 8-9 minutes at 190'-200' C. Do not let the donuts get too brown.
- Melt chocolate in a separate bowl and dip the baked donuts head first. Sprinkle powdered sugar on the donuts and serve hot!!!
