Doughnuts

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Doughnuts
Many faces gleam when they see the shop selling Doughnuts or Donuts. The aroma fills up the surroundings making us foodies, impossible to resist these freshly made colourful donuts.
When I was young, I had never heard about donuts. I tasted my first donut in Flurry's, Kolkata, and I love them to date!
Then I started making donuts. The earlier ones resembled paper weights; nevertheless I never gave up experimenting. After lots of permutations and combinations, at last I learnt to make donuts.
So now i made it easier for you all. Try once, probably you may say it to yourself, why you haven't been making them your whole life??
Trust me, this recipe comes out really well. So it's DOUGHNUT party for the whole family! Enjoy cooking!!

Ingredients:
1. Whole wheat flour: 1cup
2. All purpose flour: 1cup
3. Dry yeast: 1tsp
4. Sugar powder: 2 tbsp
5. Butter: 2 tsp
6. Salt: A pinch
7. Vanilla essence: A few drops
8. Milk: 1/2 cup
9. Oil: To deep fry.
Procedure:
1. Take about 2 tbsp warm water in a bowl. Put sugar and yeast. Keep it for 15 mins.
2. Mix all the ingredients along with the yeast mixture to make a stiff dough. Add milk if required.
3. Knead well for 5 mins.Keep it covered for an hour.
4. Roll the dough like thick chapatis.
5. Cut into donut shape. You can use either a donut cutter or you can use a steel glass.
6. Deep fry in oil. (keeping low flame)
7. Fry both the sides till golden brown.
8. Decorate with melted chocolate, jam or just sugar powder with a dash of Cinnamon powder.
You can make around 12-15 donuts with the above ingredients.


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