Easter is just around the corner and with it, in many houses they begin to prepare the typical dishes and desserts of this season. One of the sweets most consumed at this time, with permission from the French toast, are the donuts. There are many donut recipes, since being such a traditional recipe, in many families it has been adapted to the tastes of each one.
In addition, the wide variety of ingredients and cooking techniques that exist today, have favored both donuts and other desserts, have been modernized in pursuit of innovation. In the case of the donut recipes that we leave you today, they are two of the most homemade and traditional options. To begin, let's see how anise donuts are made, perhaps the first version of this typical Easter sweet. We also leave you another option just as delicious but with a different touch, some flan donuts.
Before deciding which of these recipes to try first, don't forget to ask your kids for help. This is one of those desserts that you can safely prepare, at least the dough. What's more, They will have a great time manipulating the dough and creating the donuts themselves. Now, we are going to see the step by step of these delicious and appetizing typical Easter donuts.
Anis donuts
Ingredients:
- Wheat
- 1 cup milk
- An envelope of baking powder
- Half a cup of white sugar
- 1 egg
- Half a cup of oil (for the dough)
- Oil of virgin olive (to fry the donuts)
- the peel of an orange
- Half cup anise
- Sugar and ground cinnamon
Preparation:
- Prepare a saucepan with the milk, the orange peel, the anise and half a cup of oil for the dough. Let this mixture boil over medium heat and when it starts to boil, add the sugar and stir well. Remove from heat and let it rest so that the milk flavors with all the ingredients.
- Sift the flour and yeast over a large bowl, cStart by putting two cups of flour and then you will add more, depending on what the dough admits.
- Remove the orange peel from the flavored milk and add it to the flour little by little, stirring well with a few rods.
- Beat the egg in a bowl aside and add it to the mixture, continuing to stir with the rods.
- Add flour little by little, until you get a dough with good consistency. It must be quite hard, to be able to manipulate it.
- Take small portions of dough and go making the donut shape with the fingers.
- Prepare a pan with a good bottom and plenty of olive oil, once it is hot but not too hot, go frying the donuts in small batches.
- When they are well browned, reserve on absorbent paper to eliminate excess fat.
- Prepare in a container a mixture of sugar and cinnamon to coat the donuts a little.
Flan donuts
Ingredients:
- Flour (XNUMXg)
- 1 egg
- 9 tablespoons of sunflower oil
- 1 envelope flan prepared
- 9 tablespoons of milk
- 1 sachet of baking powder
- sugar and cinnamon to decorate
- sunflower oil for frying
- the shell of a lemon
Preparation:
- Mix the 9 tablespoons of oil and the lemon peel in a pan, leave cook over medium heat for a few minutes so that the oil is flavored. Let it cool well while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
- In a bowl with a bottom, whisk the egg with the milk, the sugar and the flavored oil once it's cold.
- Now, add the yeast envelope and the flan preparation envelope and beat again very well.
- Lastly, add flour until you get a dough with good consistency.
- Prepare a pan with abundant oil and once hot, go frying the donuts in small batches.
- Go placing en absorbent paper as they brown.
- In a container, prepare sugar and cinnamon and batter the donuts once they release the excess oil.