Homemade Doughnuts

Ingredients

• All Purpose Flour - 4 cups
• Whole Milk -1 and 1/8 cup
• Sugar -1.4 cup
• Yeast - 1 pkt (2 and 1/4 tsp )
• Salt - 1/4 cup
• Butter - 1 and 1/4 stick
• Eggs -2

For the Glaze:-

• Powdered Sugar -3 cups
• Salt - a pinch
• Vanilla Esscence - 1/2 tsp
• Milk / Cool Water -1/2 cup

Method

• Boil Milk and sugar untill sugar dissolves...let it cool..
• When the milk is slightly warm add it to the yeast and mix lightly and keep it undisturbed for 10 to 15 mins..
• After 10 mins this yeast mixture will be frothy.
• Melt butter and let it cool, once cooled add the eggs and mix well...
• Add the yeast mixture to this egg and butter mixture.
• And beat till well incorporated.
• Mix all purpose flour and salt .Add this mixture to the egg mixture little by little and form a dough.This dough will be little sticky..
• Grease a bowl with butter or oil ..
• Transfer the dough to this bowl and cover it with an air tight lid
• Refrigarate it overnight.
• The next day...
• Slightly Flour the work surface.
• Roll the dough to one inch thickness
• Take a round cookie cutter and make circles.
• Take another small cookie cutter or in my case i used the lid of a plastic juice bottle..to make a circle inside the big circle
• Transfer these circles to a plate cover with aluminium foil and cover it with a damp cloth and Keep it aside for an hour .
• After an hour the dough would have risen very well...look at the pics to see the difference..
• In a pan heat oil for deep frying and fry each doughnut to golden brown color and let it cool..
• Make the Glaze by mixing water/milk with vanilla essence and powdered sugar...i used only water in this glaze...so it was not white in color...but if we use milk instead we’ll get nice white glaze.
• Dip each doughnut in the glaze ..don’t dip in fully just 1/2 or 3/4 th of the doughnut must be dipped..
• Place these doughnuts in a wire rack and let it dry...
• This is most important step in the whole process...... dig in...
• This doughnut was very light ,airy inside and crispy outside...do i have to say more? it was absolutely divine...so friends when u crave for a doughnut try to make it at home next time...u’ll surely love it..this recipe yielded about 35 doughnuts...