Do you like donuts and don’t know how to cook them? We will tell you! The necessary ingredients, popular cooking recipes and the secrets of the housewives - all in our article! The recipe for cottage cheese donuts will be an ideal chance for you to learn how to cook great pastries for family and friends.
Cooking options
What can be donuts? With or without filling. Ordinary donuts without filling are quick and easy to cook. But the stuffed ones will have to tinker with. Moreover, the filling can be thrust into the product and from thick dough, and from soft, similar to sour cream.
If the dough is thick, the filling is introduced during the formation of each donut. The process is time consuming and time consuming.
With a soft ointment test, everything is simpler. The first layer of dough is laid out, a little filling is placed in the center, and it is covered with the same layer of dough. After that, with a spatula, the product is laid out in boiling oil for frying. If baking in the oven is used in the recipe, the molding takes place directly on a baking sheet covered with thin baking paper.
What are the fillings?
The most popular version of the filling for donuts is a thick jam. But you can use other types:
- finely chopped fruits - fresh or canned (juicy, or after slicing the excess juice should be drained);
- thick berry puree;
- boiled condensed milk.
Donut Shaping
Manually shape the thick pastry donuts for a long time. You will have to cut the dough into approximately equal strips and form each donut individually.
An easier option is when pieces of soft, liquid dough are molded into a regular donut ball. This is done with two tablespoons or teaspoons. In one, the dough is typed, and the other it is removed in boiling fat (deep fat). So you can cook small donuts and more. And if you are interested in baking a tiny size, mold the dough with two coffee spoons.
With this molding, the curd fried donuts (the recipe is quite simple) are the same and look beneficial when served.
Another way to mold the dough is to use a special shape for the donuts. It can be non-stick or silicone with the same recesses for round billets with a hole inside.
Roasting or baking?
The recipe for cottage cheese donuts involves two types of dessert: frying in a large amount of oil or baking in the oven. The latter option is great for special pastry molds.
Cottage Cheese Donut Recipe. Quick and easy
Introducing the easiest and fastest recipe for cottage cheese donuts in oil. Their only negative quality is high calorie content. But it is fixable. Lay the finished products for a couple of minutes on paper towels folded in several layers. They absorb excess fat, and calorie content decreases markedly.
What ingredients to take:
- cottage cheese - 500 g;
- yolks from chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
- sugar - 2-3 tbsp. l .;
- salt - a pinch;
- vanillin - a pinch;
- wheat flour - 3-4 tbsp. l .;
- baking baking powder - 1/3 tsp.
These are products for making dough, and for deep-frying, you will need relatively much sunflower oil - about 400 g.
Fried cottage cheese donuts (recipe with photo below) are prepared as follows:
- Wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve. So the dough will turn out more uniform and tender. But if the cottage cheese for cooking is taken soft homemade, this procedure can be omitted.
- Add the yolks to the dough and mix well.
Then add sugar, salt, vanillin, flour and baking powder. Knead mass until consistency is smooth. Use a regular hand whisk or mixer for this (first speed).
- Leave the finished dough aside so that all its components begin to interact with each other.
- Separately, pour liquid oil into a saucepan and put on moderate heat. Once it warms up, you can mold the donuts.
- Take two tablespoons and spread the dough in boiling fat. Products will immediately set.
If you use donuts without powder, as a sauce to them you can serve sweet jam or jam from berries or fruits. Although homemade pumpkin jam with oranges is also to taste.
Almost the same recipe can make yeast donuts. Add 30 g butter, a teaspoon of yeast and a lot of wheat flour to the curd. The dough should be soft, elastic and not liquid. In this case, you will have to wait for the dough to rise, and after forming the products - their proofing in a warm place.
Variety of pastries will help with additional ingredients in the dough or the use of glaze.
Additional products and spices
In the recipe for cheese donuts to taste, you can include additional ingredients. They interfere in the dough:
- ground cinnamon;
- cardamom powder;
- raisins or mashed other dried fruits;
- confectionery poppy;
- ground nuts;
- dessert greens - basil, mint, sorrel;
- candied fruit in small slices;
- sesame or sunflower seeds fried in a dry pan.
Glazed donuts - is it difficult?
In many recipes, baked donuts are covered with mouth-watering sweet icing. Such can be curd donuts. See the recipe for photo glaze below.
Plain chocolate icing is made from chocolate diluted in a water bath with high-quality fatty butter. You can add a little cream to this mixture if the glaze is thick.
Some housewives thought of pouring hot donuts with freshly brewed sugar syrup mixed with butter. But there is a condition - the syrup should not be too thick or liquid.
There are recipes for custard glaze from egg whites and sugar syrup, and many others.
Let's get acquainted with the simplest options.
Donut Glaze Recipe (No Brewing)
What ingredients to take:
- powdered sugar - 5-6 tbsp. l .;
- lemon juice - 1 tsp;
- egg whites - 3 pcs.
If you want to diversify the glaze and make it colored, you should prepare in advance. Buy food colors in the store or make them yourself. For example, you can take 2-4 variants of jam of different colors: from sea buckthorn, from orange, from blueberries.
An extract, syrup or fresh juice is also suitable:
- for green color - spinach or sorrel;
- for burgundy - cherry;
- for orange - carrot;
- for violet - beetroot;
- for pink - raspberry.
Recipe:
- So, first, cool the egg whites - so they beat better. Arm yourself with a mixer and start beating at its first speed so that the mass does not spray. Then smoothly shift to the second and third speeds.
- Already at the second speed, slowly pour in powdered sugar and introduce lemon juice. Do not be afraid if the mass settles a little. When whipping only proteins, the mixture increases in size up to 7 times from the original. And if you whip the proteins with sugar, the mass will increase only 3-4 times. This is because sugar makes proteins heavier.
- Then at the first speed, introduce some dye or leave a snow-white icing.
Lemon juice in the list of ingredients can replace citric acid - one pinch. She immediately interferes with the squirrels before whipping.
With the icing, the recipe for the curd donuts is a little more complicated and takes longer. But you can make a quick glaze while the donuts cool, and then immediately cover it with products.
It is better to leave the cakes to cool on a wire rack and do not cover with anything, so the dough will remain lush and loose.