Huevos Chilenos ( Ecuadorian Doughnut Holes) | Ecuadorian Street food Recipes
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Author: Manjula Bharath
Recipe type: Street Food Recipes
Cuisine: Ecuadorian Cuisine
Serves: 15
- All Purpose Flour - 2 cups
- Milk - 11/2 cup
- Dry Active Yeast -1½ tsp
- Yellow Food Color - Few Drops
- Butter - 1 tbsp ( softened at room temperature)
- Sugar - ¼ cup + 1tbsp
- Baking pd - 2 tsp
- Granulated Sugar - ½ cup
- Oil - For frying
- In a luke warm glass of milk add dry yeast and 1 tbsp sugar,Mix them well. Set it aside for 10 mins , so that the yeast gets activated.
- After 10 mins once the yeast get activated it gets frothy on the top. Mix them well.
- In a bowl pour all purpose flour , softened butter, sugar, baking pd and Mix them well.
- Add the yellow food color too at this stage.
- Pour in the yeast mixture little by little and make a soft dough. I didn't add any eggs so these were not sticky.
- Cover and leave the dough to proofing for 1 -2 hours.
- After 2 hours the yeast reacts and dough the rises to double the volume. Remember to grease the bowl well and coat the top of dough with little oil.
- Punch the dough and deflate the air , knead the dough well.
- I rolled them with rolling pin and cut the dough with a round cookie cutter.
- Heat oil in frying pan. Test the oil by dropping a small piece of dough it should come up immediately.
- Drop the cut doughnut and fry them both side till golden brown.
- Once fried in the oil , remove them using a perforated ladle and drop them on a plate of granulated sugar , coat the doughnuts with sugar all over.
- Do the same for rest of the dough . Serve them warm , they taste best when they are warm.
- Serve them as is or with a bowl of chocolate ganache as a dip.
Recipe by Desi Fiesta at https://www.desifiesta.com/2018/04/huevos-chilenos-ecuadorian-doughnut-holes-ecuadorian-street-food-recipes.html
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