Potatoes are a versatile vegetable from which you can make quite a few dishes. Potatoes can also be used to make dough for doughnuts. It turns out fluffy, soft, perfectly fried in vegetable oil to a golden crust.
Potato doughnuts are universal. They can be made sweet or savory. If the sweet version is a good dessert for tea, then salty ones are suitable, for example, as an addition to soups and second courses.
In addition, potato doughnuts are an excellent appetizer
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They can replace boring chips and other snacks. Donuts are prepared quite quickly and do not require a large number of ingredients. The main thing is to have potatoes and flour in the house.
Soft, flavorful and delicious potato doughnuts will appeal to the whole family. They are eaten with sauces and just like that. Let’s make quick doughnuts from potato dough,
Ingredients:
- potatoes – 600 g;
- sour cream – 2 tbsp;
- butter – 50 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- salt – 1/2 tsp;
- raw yeast – 12 g;
- flour – 500 g.
Preparation of potato doughnuts:
Boil the peeled potatoes until tender and then mash them with a masher. Add butter to the mashed potatoes, mix until homogeneous
. Add sour cream and eggs to the mashed potatoes, salt and mix again. Mix yeast with 50 ml of warm potato broth and pour it into the mashed potatoes. If you use dry yeast, you will need 6 grams of it.
Pour the flour to the potatoes and knead the dough. Leave the dough under the lid for 1 hour.
Knead the dough on a table sprinkled with flour. Roll out the dough into thick layers, cut out small circles from each with a glass – future doughnuts.
Fry the doughnuts in a frying pan with vegetable oil until golden on both sides.
Put the doughnuts on a paper towel to drip off excess oil and then serve.
