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Loukoumades Cypriot Doughnuts Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Ivy / All my dishes 1 year, 7 months ago The most crunchy and delicious doughnuts we make in Cyprus. Prep:60m Cook:30m Servings:10	Ivy
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Ingredients

1 medium size potato

4 cups of water (in which you have boiled the potato)

500 grams of flour (for bread)

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon sugar

½ teaspoon cinnamon

4 grams yeast

Corn oil for frying

(Note: The cup I used is 180 ml or 6 oz.)

For the syrup:

4 cups of sugar

2 cups of water

1 spoonful of lemon juice

1 spoonful of orange blossom water

Directions

Begin by making the syrup first. Place sugar and water in a big pan and boil for 3 minutes. Add lemon juice, stir and remove from heat. Stir in the blossom water and before beginning to fry make sure that the syrup has cooled down.

Whilst preparing the syrup, peal and cut potato in small pieces and boil until it is soft.

When it is ready place it in a big bowl and mash it. Add the four cups of water from the pan and mix. When it is tepid add half of the flour, salt sugar and the yeast. It is better to mix it with your hands to make sure that there are no lumps of potato in and add then start adding the remaining flour until batter is ready.

Cover with cling film and a napkin and you must leave it for about 1 hour to rise in a warm environment but make sure you put it in a large bowl as it will double in volume.

If you have a deep fryer use it or else you need a lot of oil in a deep frying pan and when it is hot you start frying by placing your left hand in the bowl and trying to grab the dough with your fist the dough will come out among your thumb and forefinger.

With a teaspoon take the dough from there but do not fill in the spoon as they swell and become double in size (mine became huge and only at the end did I make some smaller ones).

Every now and then dip your spoon into a glass of water which will make the dough to slip from the spoon quickly into the pan. Fry them until a crispy light brown colour is achieved and remove into the syrup.

You must have someone to help you whilst you are adding dough into the frying pan someone must remove the ones in the syrup because they shouldn’t absorb too much. Place them in a colander to drain excess syrup and then move into a platter.

I did not dip all of them in the syrup but we had some with honey the next day and with strawberry jam.

See step by step photos in blog

http://kopiaste.blogspot.com/2008/04/loukoumades-kypriakoi-doughnuts.html

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