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A traditional New Orleans-style recipe for their famous beignets! They're soft, pillowy, fluffy and airy, not to mention totally scrumptious. Close your eyes, take a bite and enjoy!
Beignets is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Beignets is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have beignets using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Beignets:
- Take 80 g Lukewarm Water,
- Take 2 1/4 TSP Active Instant Dry Yeast,
- Get 2 Eggs Lightly Beaten,
- Make ready 180 g Evaporated Milk,
- Get 420 g Bleached All Purpose Flour,
- Take 100 g Granulated Sugar,
- Take 1 TSP Sea Salt,
- Make ready Unsalted Butter Softened, 60g + More For Greasing
- Make ready Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil, For Frying
- Make ready Icing Sugar, For Garnishing
- Make ready Homemade Compote, For Serving (Optional)
If you've been wanting to try New Orleans-Style Beignets, you're in for a treat! These deliciously easy to make light and fluffy fried beignets covered in powdered sugar will make you feel like your right at Café du Monde in New Orleans. As soon as the beignets puff up, use tongs or a kitchen spider to gently flip them over. Transfer the beignets to a wire rack to.
Instructions to make Beignets:
- In a bowl, add in water and yeast.
Stir to dissolve the yeast.
Set aside for 5 mins.
After 5 mins, the yeast mixture should become foamy.
- Add in eggs and milk.
Lightly whisk to combine well.
In a large mixing bowl, add flour, sugar, salt and butter.
Lightly stir to combine well.
Create a well in the middle.
- Add the yeast mixture into the well gradually while still mixing.
Mix to combine well or until it comes together as a dough.
Knead the dough inside the bowl until all the nooks and crannies of flour is kneaded into the dough, about 5 mins.
- The dough should be very tacky.
Transfer the dough out onto a working surface and continue kneading for another 5 to 8 mins until smooth and slightly tacky. It should pass the "window-pane" test.
If the dough is too dry, add in water, 1 TBSP at a time. If the dough is too sticky, add in flour, 1 TBSP at a time.
- Generously grease the bowl with butter..
Transfer the dough back to greased bowl.
Cover with cling film and let rise for 2 hrs or until doubled in size.
Punch down the dough to deflate the air.
- Divide the dough into halves.
Transfer the dough onto a lightly floured surface.
Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough into a rectangular shape with a thickness of about 1/4 inch thick.
- Cover with a damp lint free kitchen towel and let it rise for 30 mins.
It should have risen to about 1/2 inch thick and is light and fluffy.
Using a pizza cutter, cut them into squares.
Add oil into a dutch oven, about 2 inches in depth, over medium heat.
- To check if the temperature of the oil is ready, place a wooden chopstick into the oil.
If bubbles start to form, the temperature is ready for frying.*
Gently drop the dough into the oil away from you.
Deep fry until golden brown on both sides.
- Remove from heat and drain off excess oil in a wire cooling rack or a plate lined with kitchen paper.
Repeat the steps for the remaining dough.
Transfer the beignets onto a serving plate.
Lightly dust some icing sugar over the top.
Serve with your favorite compote or jam.
Learn how to make New Orleans-Style Beignets! AKA Fried Dough covered in powdered sugar! An easy recipe anyone can make! These sweet, square and holeless French doughnuts are known as beignets. New Orleans Beignets Recipe photo by Taste of Home.
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