Donuts are usually called sweet pies. round shape fried in plenty of vegetable oil. Sometimes they are made in the form of a donut with a hole in the middle. Donuts can be cooked in different ways. Classic recipe provides for the use of precisely yeast dough.

Cooking donuts

Donuts are hard to confuse with others flour products... These small dough rings, soaked through with vegetable oil after frying, become simply airy. How should you prepare these fluffy and flavorful donuts? The classic recipe provides for the following ratio of products:

For 0.5 kilograms of flour, a tablespoon of yeast (dry), a glass whole milk, 100 grams of butter, 2 eggs, 5 grams of salt, 150 grams of sugar, 500 milliliters of vegetable oil and a little powdered sugar.

What technology is used to prepare donuts? The classic recipe is based on yeast dough. It is with him that the process of their preparation begins:

1. First you need to warm up the milk and dilute the yeast in it.
2. Then gradually you need to introduce part of the flour (150 grams) with sugar and mix everything well.
3. Put the semi-finished product in a warm place for half an hour.
4. Add the remaining ingredients and make the final batch. After that, the dough should come up by standing in a warm place for at least one hour.
5. For molding, you can use two glasses of different diameters. For this ready dough need to be divided into parts, each of which is rolled out in turn in the form of an even layer no more than 1 centimeter thick. After that, with a large glass, you first need to cut out round blanks, and then make a hole inside them with dishes of a smaller diameter.
6. Heat oil in a frying pan.
7. Put the workpieces in boiling fat and fry them on both sides.
8. Cool the finished donuts and sprinkle generously with powdered sugar.

Now you can safely brew tea and get ready to have fun.

A bit of history

The first donuts were baked by the ancient Romans. True, at that time they used a slightly different set of products for their preparation. Curvy over time fragrant pies began to cook in many countries around the world. And in each of them the donut was called differently. For example, in Ukraine it is "pampushka", in Germany - "Berliner", and in Norway - "smultring". The difference between such products lies only in certain subtleties regarding the cooking technology, which depend on national characteristics and taste preferences of the given people.

Nevertheless, these are all donuts. The classic recipe provides for frying round billets made from yeast dough in vegetable oil. Sometimes donuts are prepared with a filling of vegetables, fruits, meat or cottage cheese. So, for example, the Poles add jam to them, and the Germans like to have cheese inside or custard... For the Americans, "donuts" became the reason for a real holiday. Since 1938, every Friday has been considered National Donut Day. During this time, deep-fried sweet balls are sold in large quantities in every café and grocery store.

Simple and fast

Those who do not like to bother with baking for a long time can try to cook tender and very delicious donuts on kefir. And it will take very little time for this. As starting products for work you will need: 1 egg, 6 grams of soda, 250 milliliters of kefir, 3 glasses of flour, 125 grams of sugar, a little salt and vegetable oil.

Making donuts on kefir is easy:

1. First you need to prepare the dough. To do this, pour kefir into a deep bowl, and then add salt, 50 grams of vegetable oil, sugar, an egg to it and mix it all well. Gently add soda to the resulting mass.
2. To make the donuts airy, sift the flour before kneading. This makes it possible to enrich it with oxygen. Prepared flour should be introduced gradually. As a result, the dough should not stick to your hands.
3. For forming blanks, you can use different ways... The easiest way is to divide the dough into pieces, each of which is rolled out in the form of a thin sausage, and then rolled into a ring.
4. Heat the oil vigorously in a frying pan.
5. Alternately lower dough pieces into boiling fat and fry them on both sides.

While still hot, donuts can be sprinkled directly with powder or dipped on one side in melted chocolate.

Curd delicacy

For lovers fermented milk products it will be interesting to know how to make cottage cheese donuts. It will not be difficult to do this if you first collect on the desktop following products: a pack of fatty 9% cottage cheese (200 grams), 3 eggs, 130 grams of flour, 6 grams of soda (slaked in ½ tablespoon of vinegar), 75 grams of sugar and a liter of vegetable oil.

Once all the ingredients are collected, you can begin to comprehend the art of how to make donuts:

1. First, knead the cottage cheese with eggs in a bowl.
2. Add sugar, and then, gradually adding flour, knead the dough with a spoon.
3. Pour slaked soda and mix everything again until the mass becomes almost homogeneous.
4. Pour the oil into a saucepan (it is better to take an enamel one) and bring it to a boil.
5. It is better to use a regular tablespoon to shape the blanks. First, it must be dipped in boiling fat, and then quickly scoop up a part of the dough with it. The donut shape will be arbitrary.
6. For frying, four minutes will be enough. During this time, the workpieces must be constantly rotated. As a result, donuts on all sides should become a pleasant brownish hue. If the process goes faster, then the flame should be reduced. Otherwise, the middle will not be baked.
7. Use a slotted spoon to get ready-made products and put them on a dish.

Now all that remains is to sprinkle ruddy donuts icing sugar.

Lenten dessert

Yeast donuts can be made without oil. It will turn out very delicious pies that can be eaten even during the fasting period. The following set of components is required: for two glasses warm water a tablespoon of yeast (dry), 25 grams of sugar, vegetable oil, 10-15 grams of salt and powdered sugar.

The method by which such yeast donuts are prepared is slightly different from the previous options:

1. First, the flour must be combined with the rest of the dry ingredients.
2. Pour in 50 grams of vegetable oil and, gradually adding water, knead the dough. It should be moderately soft.
3. After that, the dough must be covered with a towel and placed in a warm place to ripen.
4. Divide the prepared semi-finished product into four parts, each of which is carefully rolled in the shape of a sausage, then divide them into pieces about eight centimeters long.
5. Wrap the blanks with a ring and fasten the edges together. After that, they should lie down for 15 minutes.
6. You need to fry the donuts in hot vegetable oil for two minutes on each side.
7. Arrange hot products on a napkin to remove excess fat.

Chilled fragrant donuts can already be sprinkled with powder.

Sour cream dough

Using sour cream, you can make very fluffy donuts. When interacting with soda, this product allows the dough to increase several times. True, sour cream should not be too thick. Otherwise, you just need to dilute it with kefir. To make such lush donuts, you will need the following set of ingredients: 2 eggs, 350 grams of flour, 6 grams of soda, 200 grams of sour cream, 4 tablespoons of kefir, 120 grams of regular and a little vanilla sugar, vegetable oil and powder.

Everything is done very simply:

1. The first step is to beat the eggs with sugar (along with vanilla).
2. Add kefir, sour cream, add soda and mix well.
3. Gradually adding flour, knead an elastic, but not very tough dough.
4. Roll it into a ball, cover with a towel and let it rest a little.
5. Then roll the semi-finished product on a table into a layer no more than 2 centimeters thick.
6. Using two glasses, cut out neat rings from it and let them lie down for 10 minutes.
7. Fry the workpieces in hot oil for one minute on each side.
8. To cool down, put the donuts on a dish covered with a cotton napkin. It will absorb excess fat.

Slightly cooled food can be sprinkled with powder and served immediately.

Oven platter

You don't have to be a great cook to make delicious donuts at home. In addition, it is not at all necessary to fry them. There is great recipe, with which you can make wonderful air cakes baking them in the oven. The dough will require very few products: for a glass of milk 2 teaspoons of yeast (dry), 10 grams of salt, 2 eggs, 4 glasses of flour, half a glass of sugar and 80 grams of butter.

Process technology:

1. Dissolve the yeast thoroughly in half of the available milk, add a little sugar, and leave to mature for 15 minutes.
2. At this time, the eggs must be beaten into a dense foam, gradually adding the rest of the ingredients.
3. Without interrupting the batch, carefully pour in the prepared yeast.
4. Add flour in portions, prepare the dough and leave it for 60 minutes in a warm place, covering it lightly with a napkin.
5. Warm up and let the semi-finished product lie down for another 30 minutes.
6. Roll out the dough into a cake, the thickness of which should be no more than 1 centimeter.
7. Cut circles out of it with a glass, and then using a glass or plastic bottle make a hole in the center.
8. Arrange the blanks on a baking sheet, covering it with parchment.
9. Cover with a towel again and let sit for another 45 minutes. This will be a kind of proofing.

Bake for 15 minutes at a temperature of about 160 degrees.

As soon as the donuts are browned, they can be taken out and sprinkled with powder after cooling.

Simple option

Most housewives still prefer to cook fried donuts. Moreover, they can be made with a filling that does not have to be sweet. And if the time for work is catastrophically short, then it is worth using already ready-made semi-finished products... In this case, the list of ingredients will be as follows: 0.5 kilograms of minced meat, 1 onion, 1 kilogram of yeast dough, a bunch of dill and vegetable oil.

The technological process of making such donuts can be roughly divided into 4 parts:

1. At first, you can improve the minced meat a little. You just need to add finely chopped onions and chopped greens to it.
2. Divide the dough into parts, each of which is rolled into a ball.
3. After that, the workpiece must be slightly crushed, filled with minced meat, and then turned into a ball again.
4. It is better to deep-fry such donuts over medium heat so that the filling also has time to bake well.

The blush balls are juicy, fragrant and very tasty.

This is the simplest donut dough.

Ingredients:

How to make milk donut dough:

First, prepare the dough. Heat the milk slightly and mix 50 ml with 1 teaspoon of sugar, dry yeast and 2-3 tablespoons of flour.

Place in a warm place for the dough to come up. Pour the remaining milk into a deep bowl, add vegetable oil, egg. Beat the mass and salt a little.

Add sugar and dough. Mix everything and add the remaining flour. At the same time, stir the dough constantly so that it turns out to be homogeneous.

Put the mixture on a floured table and knead the dough with your hands. Leave for about an hour in a warm place, during this time the dough will do and you can start baking donuts.

It is possible to form products in two ways. Firstly, you can roll a sausage and wrap it in a ring, but getting perfectly smooth donuts this way is quite difficult.

Secondly, you can roll out a layer about 2 cm thick and cut out the circles with a glass or mug, and make another hole in the middle with a glass. This will make the donuts look smooth and beautiful.

Let the pieces come up for 5-10 minutes and start frying.

Dough on cottage cheese

How to make cottage cheese donut dough:

Beat the eggs thoroughly with sugar until the mixture turns white. Add cottage cheese and mix everything gently. Quench the baking soda with vinegar and pour it into the egg and curd mass.

Add the sifted flour and knead the dough. Soak your hands in water and take a small piece of dough. Roll it with your hands into a ball. Dip lightly in flour and fry the donut in hot vegetable oil until golden brown.

Cook the rest of the baked goods in the same way.

Choux pastry with cheese

Donuts are not only sweet, they can also be savory.

Ingredients:

How to make cheese donut dough:

Boil water, add oil. When it melts, immediately add flour and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally. Do this until the mixture is smooth and shiny, and the dough will lag behind the walls.

Separate the yolks from three eggs. Cool the mass, beat 4 eggs into it and add 3 more yolks. Sink the dough until smooth. Rub the cheese on coarse grater and add it to the mass, mix everything thoroughly. Shape and fry the donuts.

How to make donuts?

Donut dough is most often made with yeast. Yeast donuts are fluffy and delicious. The yeast donut recipe consists of ingredients such as: flour, milk, eggs, butter, yeast, sugar and salt. The yeast should be diluted in warm milk, then add flour and knead the donut dough well. The recipe also includes butter, which must be melted and added after the dough has risen. Then add eggs, salt and sugar, then let the dough rise a second time. After that, you can start frying. Yeast donuts, the recipe of which includes a large number of fats are very high in calories, so it is undesirable to abuse them.

How to cook donuts without yeast?

If you prefer yeast-free dough, we advise you to cook donuts with kefir. The recipe is even simpler. Beat eggs with sugar, then add kefir, flour and a little soda. Kefir donuts are no less lush than yeast donuts. Making donuts this way saves a lot of time and effort.

How to make donuts really tasty?

Very simple - just put inside sweet filling... The recipe for filled donuts is no different from the usual one, but if the filling is too sweet, then put less sugar in the dough. For example, donuts with condensed milk, which are already pretty sweet.

American donuts (donuts) are a favorite dish of US police officers. Donut production in this country has long been a tradition. Donuts (the recipe with the photo can be found on our website) is prepared with the addition of cinnamon or sesame seeds.

You can also make cottage cheese donuts. The recipe resembles, well known to everyone, cottage cheese. In many world cuisines, it is curd donuts(the recipe with the photo will show how it should turn out finished product). They are less nutritious, but no less tasty than traditional donuts. The cooking recipe will not leave indifferent any hostess. Curd donuts, as the name implies, are prepared from cottage cheese, with the addition of flour, eggs and sugar. The curd is mixed with eggs and sugar, then flour is added. After that, the cottage cheese donuts are fried in oil until golden brown. Very original dish are curd donuts, the recipe for which contains alcohol. It can be rum or cognac.

But the recipe for powdered sugar donuts is that ordinary or yeast donuts just sprinkled on top sweet powder... You can also use various syrups and chocolate.

Delicious donuts, the recipe of which, as you can see, is not at all complicated, will serve as an excellent substitute for traditional pies.

Caring housewives adapted themselves and created many recipes that, according to taste can be compared to store baked goods. It's worth taking a little time to figure out how to make donuts for the whole family.

Everyone's favorite donuts will save a friendly evening, fill family gatherings with warmth and free up most of your time. This simple snack, which came to us from Poland, won the hearts of many gourmets.

The most interesting thing is that our usual association with donuts - fatty, unhealthy, high-calorie, etc. - is fundamentally wrong. Consider the most delicious and even somewhat healthy recipes.

There are several options for preparing this simple dish.

1. In a frying pan or deep fryer - the fastest, but also the most high-calorie option... A definite plus is the golden crisp crust.
2. In the oven - the most delicate and airy donuts are obtained.
3. In a slow cooker - an option for those who want to pamper themselves, but are afraid to spoil the figure.

Each cooking option is individual, but they all have their own flavor.

Donut options

How you make the donuts is entirely up to you.

1. They are made from the very different test: custard, yeast, kefir, condensed milk or cottage cheese.
2. What will be the filling in the donut or its top coating is also up to the hostess: jam, chocolate, nuts, raisins, jam or preserves, or maybe coconut or poppy seeds.
3. You can cover the baked goods with icing, the same chocolate, sprinkling, powdered sugar, put fresh fruits, berries or dip all of it in caramel.
4. The look of your product depends on the preparation method. Donuts can look like tortillas, balls, donuts with a hole, and others.

The most delicious recipes

We offer a selection of incredibly delicious and very different recipes for every taste and desire, which will help determine how to make donuts at home.

Simple recipe

Satisfy your quick cooking and an easy way to cook. Total cooking time: 45 minutes.

You will need:

• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• sour cream - 100 grams / 4 tbsp. l. (with a slide);
• sugar - 80 grams / 3 tbsp. l .;
• flour - 1 glass (individually);
• soda - 1 tsp;

Additionally, if available, you can add vanillin / vanilla or cinnamon. This will add flavor to the baked goods.

The cooking steps include the following steps.

1. We extinguish sour cream with soda (add soda to sour cream and mix). We leave to swell.
2. We put a frying pan on the stove and add vegetable oil. If possible, pour a lot of it. This will help the donuts cook quickly, leaving the inside soft and soft. tender dough, and on the outside covering them with a crust.
3. Mix eggs and sugar until foam forms with a whisk or mixer. If there is neither one nor the other, then you can take a fork.
4. Add a mixture of sour cream and soda to the eggs. Whisk.
5. Add flour little by little, stirring and breaking the lumps. We bring the dough to the state of thick sour cream.
6. Scoop up the dough and "drip" into the pan. They will resemble pancakes in shape, but inside there are real donuts.

Juicy donuts with milk

How to make milk donuts and make them nutritious? Easily! It is advisable to use a deep fryer or deep pan. It will take about 2 hours to cook (taking into account the approach of the test).

Would need:

• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• milk - 500 ml;
• sugar - 80 g / 2.5 tbsp. l .;
• salt - 0.5 tsp;
• butter / margarine - 100 g;
• yeast - 10 g (dry);
• flour - 400 g (individually).

If you do not have margarine, butter, it doesn’t matter, donuts will turn out tender without using them. The main purpose of fats is to add fluffiness and creamy flavor.

1. Heat milk until warm (can be diluted with hot water).
2. Gradually add sugar (not all) to it, then yeast. We leave aside for 15 minutes. This is necessary for the yeast to begin its action.
3. Let's get down to the second part. We break the eggs and add the remaining sugar to them, beat.
4. Pour in the flooded butter or margarine and add salt. Beat until foamy. You can achieve a positive effect with a whisk or mixer.
5. We combine the two parts of our dough and mix.
6. Add the sifted flour. Bring the dough to a homogeneous mass (if it sticks to your hands, moisten them with warm water).
7. We put the dough aside and leave it for 30 minutes or 1 hour.
8. Roll out the dough. Cut out the circles with a large glass, make holes in the circle with a smaller one.
9. We spread thin donuts in a preheated deep saucepan or deep fryer. The butter should almost cover your baked goods. We keep them for several minutes.
10. Serve to the table on one plate. Or decorate according to your choice.

On a note - you can use kefir, or you can not throw it away, but use sour milk. Total cooking time: 15 minutes.

Ingredients:

• kefir - 250 ml;
• sugar - 4 tbsp. l .;
• soda + lemon acid+ salt - 5 g / quarter tsp;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• sunflower oil - 500 g.

The stages of preparation are as follows.

1. Everything is simple here. You can not follow the sequence, but just mix everything. Sunflower oil very little is added here. Stir until smooth with a whisk or mixer. The main thing here is speed.
2. Roll up small balls of dough. We flatten and make holes in them, you can use your hands.
3. Immediately put the donuts in boiling oil.
4. Allow baked goods to cool on a paper or cotton towel.
5. Serving to the table.

Donuts on cottage cheese

Total cooking time: 25 minutes.

Components:

• cottage cheese - 200-400 g;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 4 tbsp. l .;
• lemon juice - 0.5 tsp;
• salt - a quarter tsp;
• flour - 2 cups.

The following sequence of actions must be observed.

1. Beat eggs with sugar to form an airy foam.
2. We mix the mixture with cottage cheese. We mix. Add salt and vanillin.
3. Add flour until thick.
4. Roll up small balls and dip in a deep saucepan with boiling oil. We sustain them for a couple of minutes.
5. Put it on a plate and let it cool.
6. Ready!

Curd donuts are crispy and moderately high in calories. From a small amount of products, it turns out quite large portions suitable for big company... They are quite sweet and very nutritious. Perfect as a festive dessert.

Sweet donuts with condensed milk

Such pastries will perfectly replace dessert and satisfy tastes. different people and connoisseurs of pastries. Total cooking time: 20 minutes.

Components:

• condensed milk - 1 can / 400 g;
• eggs - 3-4 pcs.;
• flour - 3 cups;
• soda - 0.5 tsp.

The manufacturing steps are as follows.

1. Mix eggs with condensed milk.
2. In the second container, mix the flour and soda.
3. Combine the two masses and mix thoroughly, quickly, gradually adding flour until thick. The consistency should resemble thick sour cream.
4. Roll up small balls and fry them in a deep fryer for 2-3 minutes.
5. Serve on the table with decoration in the form of powdered sugar, berries or jam, poured on top.

The peculiarity of such donuts is that they are prepared very quickly and do not require much effort.

The total cooking time of this delicious and nutritious dish is approximately 2 hours.

Ingredients:

• cocoa powder - 100 g;
• ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• butter / margarine - 80 g;
• fruit yogurt - 200 ml / 2 small packs;
• baking powder.

It will take a long time to cook this delicacy, but it's worth it - the pastries come out appetizing, tender and seem to melt in your mouth.

The steps for making sweet donuts are as follows.

1. Beat eggs and sugar until foamy. Add yoghurt and bring to a splendor.
2. We mix cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, ground cinnamon and a little flour.
3. Melt the butter and mix it with egg mixture... Pour the dry mixture into the resulting mass and beat quickly.
4. Put the kneaded dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour, after covering it with something (a towel or cling film; the dough will be sticky to the touch).
5. Divide the dough into small pieces and roll it out. Create a donut shape - a circle with a hole inside.
6. Preheat a deep fryer or pan with oil. The oil must be heated.
7. Fry donuts for a few minutes.
8. We serve donuts to the table, having previously covered with chocolate icing.

Despite the fact that such donuts will take a long time to cook, they are incredibly tasty and aromatic. Children will especially appreciate these treats.

These donuts even have a special name - donuts (am. Donuts). They must be covered with some kind of icing or chocolate on top. Total cooking time: 30 minutes.

Ingredients:

• milk - 400 ml;
• yolks - 2 pcs.;
• yeast - 1 sachet / 30 g (dry);
• butter / margarine - 50 g;
• flour - 500 g;
• milk chocolate- tile.

The stages of preparation are as follows.

1. We heat up all the milk. Add sugar, yeast, salt, yolks and some flour to some of the milk. Mix, bring to a consistency and leave in a warm place.
2. Pour the melted butter into the dough, knead thoroughly.
3. Roll out the resulting dough and sculpt circles with a hole. Glasses with necks of different diameters will simplify the task.
4. Put the baked goods in boiling oil and keep it for no longer than 3 minutes. You can identify it by the appeared golden crust.
5. Melt milk chocolate on steam bath... Add some milk.
6. Dip the cooled delicacy in chocolate, dipping only one side, and leave it on a baking sheet to dry.
7. Serve on the table, sprinkling coconut flakes or other sprinkling.

1. You can determine the temperature of the oil by dropping a piece of dough - it should be covered with pimples / bubbles.
2. For the splendor of the dough, select only fresh yeast and sifted flour. Such seemingly insignificant criteria play very important role in making delicious donuts.
3. You can simplify your task - knead the dough in a bread maker. You can add nuts or dried fruits with raisins there.
4. Ease of sculpting - use glasses of different diameters to make donuts perfect shape... Some resourceful housewives make small snakes and connect their ends, then flatten them.
5. If your filling or icing is too runny, you can thicken it by adding semolina.
6. Always place the donuts on a towel after deep-frying, allowing the donuts to get rid of excess oil.
7. Any sprinkling should be done while the donuts are hot. In this case, it will melt a little and will hold better on baked goods.

Conclusion

Now you know how to make donuts by different recipes... Finally, we will give one more piece of advice: donuts should be served freshly prepared - they are fresh and tastier and more aromatic. Unfortunately, after the refrigerator or the next day, they lose some of their appetizing.

Mother of two children. I lead household for more than 7 years - this is my main job. I love to experiment, I constantly try various means, methods, techniques that can make our life easier, more modern, richer. I love my family.

Making donuts at home is very easy if you know a few secrets that we will share with you. Donuts are sweet pastries from yeast dough, cooked with deep fat. Yeast dough is not a quick thing, so for lazy sweets there are variations with a faster yeast-free dough, on baking powder. Choose the option that you like the most. But we recommend trying the traditional yeast dough, it will definitely give you exactly the taste of childhood that you probably remember.

The shape is also traditional for donuts - a lush ring of a small size. Donuts can be different from the usual fried dough to donuts with various fillings - custard, chocolate, lemon curd, berry jam... The filling is also a matter of taste. Whatever you choose donuts with, the main thing is that you understand that the most delicious are those made with your own hands. And of course, they did not forget about the sense of proportion, because this is a high-calorie sweetness prepared in a not very healthy way.

A bit of history

Cooking secrets

Homemade donut recipe

• Dry yeast 2 tsp
• Flour 350 g
• Vegetable oil 3 tbsp. l.
• Sugar 3 tbsp. l.
• A pinch of salt
• Eggs 1 pc.
• Milk 20 ml
• Vegetable oil for frying

Cooking method:

Heat the milk slightly and add the yeast, stir. Add a few tablespoons of flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar and let stand in a warm place for about half an hour.