Eggless Donuts:
I was watching TLC Channel’s Food Paradise where they were featuring donuts of all types. My mouth just couldn’t stop salivating at the sight of those yummy donuts. I was so tempted that I immediately thought of trying out the recipe which I had learnt at my Baking Institute. We were taught donuts with egg in it.. As we do not eat eggs at home, I had to come up with an eggless version.
The verdict was lovely spongy donuts which just melted in the mouth:)..
You’ll need:
All purpose flour (maida): 1 cup
Butter: 2 tablespn chilled (I used salted butter and avoided salt in the recipe)
Castor Sugar: 1/2 cup
Milk powder: 1 teaspn
Baking powder: 1/2 teaspn
Active dry Yeast: 1/2 teaspn (in warm water and sugar for about 10 mins kept aside)
Flax seed powder: 1/2 teaspn (in 1/4 cup warm water- strain the water and use the water only)
Vanilla Essence: 1/2 teaspn
Milk: 3 tablespns
Oil: to fry
Topping:
Honey, Icing Sugar, Jam..suit yourself. We generally love the sugar kissed and honey kissed donuts.
Procedure:
Sieve the flour, baking powder and milk powder in a bowl. Add butter to it and keep mixing it by cutting the butter and gently rubbing with your palms to get a crumb consistency. To this mixture add castor sugar, vanilla essence, yeast mixture, flax seed water and milk and knead gently to form a soft dough.
Keep aside for 30 mins for the dough to double in size. Since the climate was a little cool today I kept the dough in the microwave(in switched off mode) as microwaves are generally warm on the insides. The dough had fairly risen in 30 mins.
Gently knead the dough and roll out 1/4″ thickness sheet and use a doughnut cutter and shape them into cute circles with a hole in the middle:)..If you do not have a doughnut cutter, you could use bottle lids of 2 sizes, one small and one big. Let these pieces rest again for about 25 mins for the yeast to prove or till they double in size.
Deep fry them in oil which is kept on a low flame and allow them to turn golden brown. Once done keep the hot donuts on a tissue and sprinkle some castor sugar or honey on them. Donuts are ready to be dunked of course with a hot cuppa coffee /Tea..
look perfect,,,,
Thank You and they also tasted perfect:)…
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i love donuts, specially the one we get in thoms bakery- frazer town. would like to try ur recipe. can u plz tell me how many eggs to be used here instead of flax seed.
thank u,
shreya
Hi Shreya, thank you for the compliment, the original recipe calls for 2 eggs if the flour is 500gms..otherwise 1 egg= 1/2 teaspn flaxseed powder in warm water..do try out and let me know.