Doughnut filling:
300 grams quality strawberry jam
Presentation:
Powdered sugar
Preparation
How do you make homemade doughnuts?
1. Prepare dough:
Sift the flour into the mixer bowl. Add the dry yeast, sugar and salt.
Using a kneading hook, mix the dry ingredients a little.
2. Add the oil, eggs, vanilla extract and water. Mix the dough on low speed for about 10 minutes.
3. Add the alcohol of your choice and knead for another 2 minutes until a very soft and slightly sticky dough is obtained.
4.
Lightly grease a large bowl and transfer the dough to it. Cover with
plastic wrap and let the dough rise for about an hour and a half to two
hours, until the dough doubles in volume.
5. Make the doughnuts:
Flour the work surface well. Take the dough out to the work surface and
flour it on top as well. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1.5-2 cm.
Using a round cookie cutter with a diameter of 7 centimeters, cut out a
circle of dough, pull it out immediately from the rolled dough and
place it in a pan or tray lined with a baking sheet.
6.
Continue like this and make all the rounds of dough and between winks
dip the cutter in flour. When you finish making rounds, gather back all
the leftover dough into a tight ball, cover with a towel and let it rest
for 5 minutes. Repeat the same process again and again, rolling,
cutting and placing in a tray with a space between each other, until
there is no dough left.
7. Lightly flour the dough rounds on top, cover with a towel and leave to rise for about 40 minutes.
8.
Meanwhile, put the strawberry jam into the squeeze bottle or into a
piping bag with a thin nozzle. If the jam contains large pieces of
strawberry, it must be passed through a strainer and then transferred to
a bottle.
9. Frying: In a medium pot, heat oil over medium heat to a temperature of 160-170 degrees or until, when you insert an upside-down wooden spoon,
there are small bubbles next to it. It is very important to fry on
medium heat. If the oil is too hot, the doughnut will be cooked on the
outside and raw on the inside.
10.
Using a small spatula or a wide knife, gently transfer the rounds of
dough into the oil with the side that was on top upside down, in the
oil. Fry for about a minute and a half to two minutes on each side,
until the doughnuts turn brown. Remove to a large tray lined with paper
towel.
11. Filling:
When you finish frying all the doughnuts, take a straw (or a pencil
with the side with the eraser wrapped in cling film) and use it to
create a hole inside the doughnut. Fill the doughnut with jam
using the squeeze bottle, until the jam comes out a little from the
hole you made. If the jam has difficulty coming out, heat the bottle
with the jam for a few seconds in the microwave.
12.
After the doughnuts have cooled completely, sprinkle powdered sugar on
top (if freezing, do not sprinkle powdered sugar, only when taking out
of the freezer).
