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Doughnut is an international cuisine which is popular in many countries and is prepared in different forms. It is made from leavened fried dough. Doughnut is the traditional name but most often people also refer it as Donut.

Doughnut or Donut is a deep fried or baked sweet snack prepared from All Purpose Flour (Maida). Maida is kneaded with Activated Yeast to prepare the dough. It is then allowed to rest so that it gets fermented. The fermented dough is then shaped into donuts and then fried or baked to prepare the doughnuts. At last it is glazed using Brown Chocolate Glaze or White Chocolate Glaze or Powdered Sugar.

Today, most of the people purchase Doughnut from restaurants, bakeries, food stalls, supermarkets, sweets outlets and franchise outlets since they think that it is too complex to prepare it at home. But trust me it’s not the case. If you can prepare Pizza, Garlic Breadsticks, Stuffed Garlic Bread, Zingy Parcel, etc. at home, then you can also prepare Doughnut easily. The extra effort that this recipe requires is the glazing and topping of the Doughnut. Apart from this all the other steps are easy and quick.

There are many options to glaze the doughnut. You can choose as per your choice. Here we have glazed the doughnuts using Brown Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and Powdered Sugar. You can use Cocoa Powder to prepare brown chocolate glaze if you do not have brown chocolate bar. There are other options of glaze toppings such as Choco Chips, Tutti Fruity, Cinnamon and Sprinkles. You can make various designs while glazing.

There are few important things that we must keep in mind and follow it while preparing Doughnuts. They are:

1. Activation of Yeast: The most important part while preparing the dough is the use of Yeast. You can use either Active Dry Yeast or Instant Yeast or Active Yeast to ferment the dough. Activation of Yeast is very important to ferment the dough. Formation of froths and bubbles on the surface indicates that the yeast is activated and is ready to mix it with All Purpose Flour.
2. Fermentation of Dough: To prepare soft and fluffy Doughnut, fermentation of maida dough is necessary. Proper fermentation is possible when we use activated yeast. If the yeast does not activate, the dough will not ferment properly. After kneading the dough, allow it to rest for an hour. After an hour the dough will double in size. It indicates that the dough has fermented properly.
3. Frying of Doughnuts: Fry the Doughnuts till they are slight golden in colour. Do not brown it too much or else the surface will become hard.
4. Glazing of Doughnuts: To make it look perfect, glazing is very important. You can glaze the doughnuts using Brown Chocolate, White Chocolate or Powdered Sugar. You can also top it by using sprinkles.

To prepare Doughnut, first let’s activate the Dry Yeast. Take Warm Water or Warm Milk in a cup. Water or Milk should be luke warm and not hot or else the yeast might not activate. To it add a teaspoon of Sugar. Stir the Sugar to dissolve it completely. Sugar acts as a catalyst and it helps in activating the yeast. Now add Dry Yeast and stir to dissolve it completely.

Cover the cup and allow it to rest for about 15 minutes. After 15 minutes you will see that froths and bubbles are formed at the surface of the yeast. This indicates that the yeast has been activated. If you do not see froths on the surface, it means that the yeast has not been activated and so do not use it. Try another batch of yeast. Keep the activated Yeast aside.

Now take All Purpose Flour (Maida) in a large bowl. To it add Sugar, Vanilla Essence, Baking Powder, Salt and Butter and then mix all the ingredients properly. Next add Milk and Activated Yeast to the mixture. Add Milk as required.  Knead the mixture to prepare soft dough. If the dough becomes hard, add more milk to it and knead it properly. After preparing the dough, apply some Oil or Butter all over the surface of the dough. Cover it and allow it to rest for an hour by keeping it in a warm place. During this time the dough will double in its size. Keeping the dough in warm place will help in proper fermentation.

Take a tray and place parchment paper or butter paper over it. If you do not have parchment paper or butter paper then you can grease the tray with Butter. After an hour you will see that the dough has doubled in its size. Knead it again for few minutes more. Now sprinkle some flour on the flat surface of kitchen shelf. Place the dough on the surface and then roll it into a circle shape of thickness of about 1/2 to 3/4 inches. Now using doughnut cutter, cut the entire rolled dough into doughnut shape. Remove the cut doughnut and place them in the tray.

If you do not have Doughnut Cutter, you can use small and big lid of a jar or bottle to cut the rolled dough. First cut the dough with big lid. Then place the small lid at the centre of the cut dough. Press and cut it to shape the doughnut. With the same process, cut the entire rolled dough. Place the cut doughnuts in a tray and allow it to rest by covering it for about 15-20 minutes. During this time, the doughnuts will again double in its size.

Till the time the doughnuts are resting, let’s prepare the Glaze Toppings. Take the Brown and White Chocolates in a separate bowl and break into small pieces. Now heat water in a large container. Once hot, place the bowl containing the chocolates over the water by holding it with a tong. Add Milk into the bowl and with the help of spoon stir the chocolate. Stir continuously till it melts completely to form slurry. Follow the same process for both the chocolates.

Now heat Oil in a kadai over medium heat. Once hot, add the shaped donuts into the Oil one by one carefully. Do not overload the kadai. Fry the Doughnuts till they are light golden in colour. Keep flipping the doughnut to cook them evenly from all side. When the doughnuts are light golden in colour take them out from the oil and place them over kitchen towel or tissue paper to absorb excess oil. In the same manner fry the remaining shaped donuts. Allow the donuts to cool down.

After frying the doughnuts, we will glaze them by using Brown and Milk chocolates. Take a doughnut and dip it upside down into the bowl containing the melted chocolate. Dip it partially and coat it properly. Keep it in a separate plate by placing the coated area upwards. Use both the chocolates to glaze all the doughnuts.

You can also glaze it by using powdered sugar. Simply apply some melted butter over the upper surface and then roll it in the powdered sugar to coat it properly. To give a perfect look to the Doughnuts, sprinkle some colourful sprinkles over it. Tasty and delicious Doughnut is ready to serve. Serve it warm or at room temperature as a dessert. You can also refrigerate it to serve it later.

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Doughnut Recipe/Donut Recipe/Homemade Donuts

Doughnut or Donut is a deep fried or baked sweet snack prepared from All Purpose Flour (Maida). Maida dough is first fermented using Instant Dry Yeast and then shaped into donuts. The shaped donuts are then fried or baked to prepare the doughnuts. It is then glazed using Chocolate Glaze or Sugar coating glaze.

Course Breakfast, Desserts, Snacks

Cuisine International

Diet Vegetarian

Keyword Donut, Doughnut

Preparation Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Resting Time 1 hour hour

Total Time 1 hour hour 40 minutes minutes

Servings 15 pieces

Calories

Author Recipe by Chits

Equipments:

• Heavy base kadai
• Strainer
• Parchment Paper or Butter Paper
• Doughnut Cutter or Small and Big Lid
• Tong
• Kitchen Towel or Tissue Paper

Ingredients:

For Activating Yeast:

• 1 teaspoon Dry Yeast
• 1 teaspoon Sugar
• 1/2 cup Warm Water/Warm Milk

For Doughnut Dough:

• 2 cups All Purpose Flour (Maida)
• 1/4 cup Sugar
• 1/4 cup Milk
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
• 2 tablespoon Butter or Oil
• 1/4 teaspoon Baking Powder
• A pinch Salt
• Oil to Deep Fry

For Glazing:

• 150 grams Dark Chocolate
• 150 grams White Chocolate
• 1/4 cup Powdered Sugar
• 4 tablespoon Milk (or as required)
• 2 tablespoon Sprinkles

Instructions:

Preparation of Maida Dough:

• To prepare the Maida dough, first we need to activate the Dry Yeast. Take Luke Warm Milk or Water in a cup. Water should be warm and not hot or else the Yeast might not get activated.
• To it add a teaspoon of Sugar and dissolve it by stirring with the help of spoon. Sugar acts as a catalyst so it is added to water to activate the yeast.
• Next add Dry Yeast to the water/milk and stir it to dissolve. Cover the cup and allow it to rest for about 15 minutes.
• After 15 minutes you will see that froth bubbles are formed. Formation of froths indicates that the yeast has been activated. If froths are not formed, it means that the yeast has not been activated. Do not use it and try with another batch of yeast. Keep the activated Yeast aside.
• Now take All Purpose Flour (Maida) in a large bowl. To it add Sugar, Vanilla Essence, Baking Powder, Salt and Butter. Mix all the ingredients uniformly.
• Next add Milk and Activated Yeast to the mixture and knead the flour to prepare soft dough. Add Milk to the flour as required.
• The dough should be soft after kneading. Softer dough will help in preparing soft texture doughnuts.
• If in any case the dough is hard, add more milk and knead it again. When you add more milk to the dough, it will initially become sticky but keep kneading it so that after sometime the dough will absorb all the milk.
• Once the dough is prepared, apply some butter all over the dough. Cover it with lid and allow it to rest for about 1 hour by keeping it aside in a warm place.
• During this time, the dough will double in its size. Keeping the dough in warm place will help in proper leavening and fermentation of the dough.

Rolling and Shaping the Doughnut:

• Take a tray and place parchment paper or butter paper over it. If you do not have parchment paper or butter paper, you can simply grease the tray with Oil or Butter and sprinkle some flour over it.
• After an hour, remove the lid from the dough. You will see that the dough has doubled in its size. Take the dough and gently knead it again for few minutes.
• Now sprinkle some flour on the kitchen shelf surface. Place the dough over it and roll the entire dough into a circle of thickness of approx. 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch.
• Take Doughnut Cutter and press it over the rolled dough to cut it into a doughnut shape. Do it for entire rolled dough.
• Once the entire rolled dough is cut with the doughnut cutter, first remove all the small circle from the centre of the doughnut. You can keep the small circle to prepare small doughnut for your kids.
• Next remove all the main doughnut from the rolled dough one by one and place them in the greased tray or over butter paper. Apply some Oil or Butter over the Doughnut surface with the help of a brush.
• If you do not have doughnut cutter, you can use small and big lid of a bottle and jar to cut the rolled dough. First cut the rolled dough with big lid. Then place small lid at the centre of the cut dough. Press and cut it. Follow the same process for entire rolled dough. Now remove the small circle to get the doughnut shape. Pick and place all the Doughnut in the greased tray. Apply Butter over the Doughnut surface with a brush.
• After shaping the doughnut, you will be left with some dough. Roll it again to shape more doughnuts. Repeat this process till all the dough gets over.
• Once the Doughnut is shaped, cover it with kitchen towel for about 15 minutes. The doughnut will again become double in its size.
• You can vary the resting time depending upon the time it takes to become almost double its size. If it does not double its size in 15 minutes, you can allow it to rest for about 30 minutes.

Preparation of Glaze Toppings (Brown Chocolate Glaze and Milk Chocolate Glaze):

• Till the time the dough is resting, let’s prepare the Chocolate and Milk glaze. Take the Brown Chocolates and White Chocolates in separate bowls.
• Break the chocolates in both the bowls into small pieces. This will make the task of melting the chocolates easier.
• Heat Water in a large container or kadai or pan. When hot, place the Brown Chocolate Bowl over the water by holding the bowl using a tong.
• Add small amount of Milk into the bowl and stir the chocolate continuously with the help of spoon.
• Stir the chocolate continuously till it completely melts to form smooth slurry. Remove the bowl and keep it aside. Chocolate glaze is ready.
• Follow the same process for preparing the Milk Chocolate glaze. Keep both the glaze aside and let’s start frying the doughnuts.

Frying/Baking of doughnut:

• Heat Oil in a heavy base kadai over medium flame.
• Once hot, add the prepared Doughnut into the oil one by one carefully.
• Fry the Doughnut under low to medium heat till it changes its colour to light golden brown. Keep stirring the doughnut so that it is cooked evenly from all sides.
• When the doughnut becomes light golden brown, take them out from the oil with the help of strainer and place them over tissue paper or kitchen towel to absorb excess oil. Allow them to cool down.
• If you want to bake the doughnuts, preheat the microwave oven at 180 degree celsius for about 15-20 minutes. Place the doughnuts in the baking tray and then put the tray inside the oven. Bake the doughnuts till the upper layer is slightly golden brown in colour. Remove the baked doughnuts and allow it to cool down. Do not over bake or else the upper layer will become dry and hard.
• Follow the same process to fry or bake the remaining shaped doughnut. Now we will glaze the fried/baked doughnuts with Brown Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and Powdered Sugar.

Glazing the Doughnuts:

• Take a doughnut and dip it upside down into the bowl containing the melted chocolate. Dip it partially and coat the upper layer of the doughnut properly.
• After coating the doughnut properly, keep it in a separate plate with the coated side facing upwards. Follow the same procedure for other doughnuts. Use both the melted chocolates, dark chocolate and milk chocolate to coat the doughnuts.
  
• You can also glaze the doughnut with powdered sugar. First apply some melted butter over the upper surface of the doughnut. Next place the upper face of the doughnut over the Powdered Sugar and coat it properly with it. Sugar glazing is complete. Keep it in a separate plate.
  
• At last, top the Doughnut with different colourful sprinkles. You can also use Finely Grated Coconut as a topping over the Doughnuts.
  
• Tasty, Delicious and Mouthwatering Doughnut are ready to serve. Serve it warm or at room temperature. You can also refrigerate it to serve it later on but remember to warm the doughnuts before serving, since on refrigerating it may become dense.
  

Notes:

1. You can use Whole Wheat Flour (Atta) to prepare the doughnut as it is healthier than Maida. However to prepare soft and fluffy doughnuts, use All Purpose Flour (Maida) only. You can also use a mix of both, Maida and Atta to prepare the dough.
2. To knead the flour, Maida takes low amount of water or milk while Atta takes more of it. So add the milk or water accordingly. While kneading when you add more milk to the dough, it will initially become sticky but keep kneading it so that after sometime the dough will absorb all the milk. Quantity of milk to be used depends upon the quality of the flour used.
3. The dough should be soft after kneading. Softer dough will help in preparing soft texture doughnuts.
4. Once the dough is prepared, cover it and allow it to rest for about 45 minutes to 1 hour. During this time, the dough will double in its size. Keeping the dough in warm place will help in proper leavening and fermentation of the dough.
5. Once the Doughnut is shaped and cut, allow it again to rest for about 15-20 minutes. During this time, the doughnut will again double in its size.
6. While adding the shaped donuts to the oil to fry, remember to keep the shape of the donuts as it is and carefully add it into the oil. It will help in keeping the doughnuts fluffy and soft.
7. Fry the Doughnuts till it is slight golden brown in colour. Do not turn it into dark brown or else the upper surface will become hard.
8. To prepare the Doughnuts you can either fry it in oil or bake it in microwave oven. Choose as per your choice. Here we have fried the doughnuts in oil.
9. There are many options to glaze the doughnut. You can choose as per your choice. Here we have glazed the doughnuts using Brown Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and Powdered Sugar. You can use Cocoa Powder to prepare brown chocolate glaze if you do not have brown chocolate bar. You can also use Choco Chips and Tutti Fruity as a glaze topping.
10. Doughnut tastes best when it is warm or is at room temperature. You can refrigerate it if you want to serve it later on. However, on refrigerating it will become dense, so before serving it, slightly warm them in a microwave oven or allow it to come down to room temperature.