Light Equally Air Donut Holes For This Weekend

This recipe comes from the Apr edition of Cooking Light LIGHT AS AIR DONUT HOLES FOR THIS WEEKEND

This recipe comes from the Apr edition of Cooking Light...go figure. Why a fried donut recipe is inwards a journal called Cooking Light, I'm non sure, but it is...I tried it, in addition to they were delicious...light equally air.
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6 tablespoons warm H2O (see note)
¼ loving cup granulated sugar
1+ 1/8 teaspoons dry out active yeast (I used 1¼)
6.75 ounces flour (about 1½ cups) divided (see note)
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sour cream
1 large egg, lightly beaten
6 cups peanut crude (I used vegetable oil)
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Combine outset iii ingredients inwards a large bowl, permit correspond v minutes or until bubbly. Weigh, or lightly spoon 5.63 ounces (about 1¼ cups) flour into dry out measurement cups in addition to floor amongst a knife, add together salt.
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Add sour cream in addition to lightly beaten egg to yeast mixture in addition to mix until smooth. Add the flour mixture in addition to mix until a moist dough forms. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead until smoothen in addition to elastic (about iii minutes); add together plenty of the remaining flour (1 tablespoon at a time) to forbid dough from sticking to your hands. (dough volition experience slightly sticky). See note.
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Place dough inwards a bowl coated amongst cooking spray. Cover amongst plastic twine in addition to permit it rising inwards a warm house (85 degrees) for 1 hr or until almost double inwards size. (see note)
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Punch downward dough. Divide into 36 equal portions; curl each component into a ball. Cover dough amongst plastic twine coated amongst cooking spray; permit sit down xxx minutes.
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Fry inwards 375F oil, for 2 minutes or until golden in addition to done. Drain donuts on newspaper towels. Glaze or curl inwards sugar.
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OK, instantly that was their instructions...here's mine: I ended upward using ii cups of flour because their recommendation was only non enough. I shaped the donut holes in addition to placed them on a foursquare of parchment newspaper that I had sprayed amongst cooking spray in addition to and thus wiped off amongst a newspaper towel. This allows y'all to alternative upward each donut hole without deflating it.

Yeast dough's solely cooperate amongst y'all if they are kept warm, so, either choose the egg in addition to sour cream to room temperature earlier y'all role them, or sit down your bowl of dough (and after your pan of shaped donut holes) over a large bowl of real warm H2O (the hottest H2O coming from your kitchen sink).

This dough was supposed to conduct keep solely an hr to enhance the outset time. However, I didn't role room temperature ingredients, thus it took almost 2 hours. Once I sat it over the bowl of warm water, the dough became beautifully lite in addition to fluffy.

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I uncovering that an electrical skillet industrial plant good for frying donuts because y'all tin railroad train the temperature in addition to it doesn't conduct keep all that much oil. Just brand certain y'all flip them over every xxx seconds for a sum shaver fourth dimension of 2 minutes.

Drain them, initially, on several layers of newspaper towels. Once drained, dip the hot donuts inwards a glaze or curl them inwards sugar.

Glaze

1½ cups powdered sugar

2 tablespoons maple syrup

2 tablespoons warm water

(I added a one-half teaspoon vanilla)
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NOTE: Recipe starts amongst six tablespoons warm water. You tin genuinely role fairly hot H2O inwards this pace because the granulated saccharide volition cool downward the H2O earlier y'all mix inwards the yeast.
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NOTE: This recipe needs a lot to a greater extent than flour than is called for. I used ii cups of flour (lightly spooned into a measurement loving cup in addition to leveled off amongst a knife), in addition to I didn't position it inwards 1 tablespoon at a time, similar directions suggest, I exactly dumped it in.