Doughnnut

Vacations are here! Time for some high carb diet...
My mom always says that vacations are the time "kids put on height and weight"!!

                                                                 DOUGHNUTS!!
Sweet, deep fried and smothered in chocolate!
Each recipe I found had eggs in it or had too much 'work' (read: knead, reknead, etc!)
This recipe by Nisha Madhulika is easy to make and my kids approved the taste!!

Yield : 16

Ingredients:
Maida / All Purpose Flour -2 cups
Sugar - 2 tbsp
Yeast -1 tsp
Butter - 1/4 cup (room temperature)
salt - 1 pinch
Milk - between 1/2 and 3/4 cup - lukewarm
Oil for deep frying
Powdered sugar - for coating
Chocolate for glazing

Take a large deep bowl.
Mix together the flour, sugar, yeast and salt.
Add in the butter and mix till the flour resembles bread crumbs.
Use the milk, little at a time to make a smooth dough.
Knead the dough well for 5 minutes.
Dust the rolling surface and roll out the dough into a circle of 1/2 inch thickness.
Then cut out doughnuts using a big circle (I used a katori) and then a small circle in the middle (I used a medicine measure)

Use the inside bits and the outside to make more doughnuts.
To prevent drying, apply some oil o the tops of each doughnut ring.
Keep covered  and allow to rise for 2 hours.
After 2 hours, heat the oil in a deep kadai / dish and keep the flame low.
Fry till golden and drain on absorbent paper.

As you can see in the above picture, the oil was too hot when I fried the balls.
Keep the flame low.

Take each doughnut and immerse in the powdered sugar. Shake off excess sugar and keep aside.

Melt the chocolate on a double boiler and cool a little.
Dip one side of the doughnut in the chocolate.
Your Chocolate doughnut is ready.

You can fill your doughnut with cream or jam, if you please.
Decoration options include sprinkles, toasted nuts, dried coconut etc..