Les Bugnes (French Donuts)
Les Bugnes (French Donuts)

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Great recipe for Les Bugnes (French Donuts). Let's discover the world of French pastry one delicious recipe at a time and so far it has been great. The word bugne means "beignet" in French, which means donut in English, but don't be confused they are not the same.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook les bugnes (french donuts) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Les Bugnes (French Donuts):
  1. Get 300 g bread flour
  2. Take 1 egg
  3. Make ready 30 g powdered sugar + 2tbs for coating
  4. Take 80 g soft unsalted butter
  5. Take 2 g salt
  6. Get 1 tbs fresh orange zest
  7. Take 1 tbs rum
  8. Get 6 g instant dry yeast
  9. Make ready 30 ml fresh milk
  10. Prepare 2 cups Canola oil for frying

Flavoured with lemon zest, they are light and very delicate. You could also omit the lemon zest and use orange zest instead. As usual, here is a new recipe : "les bugnes". Bugnes is a typically french recipe.

Steps to make Les Bugnes (French Donuts):
  1. Place all ingredients in bowl of standing mixer except butter and knead until it come together. Add soft butter little by little and knead until smooth and elastic. Cover and let it rise double in size in room temperature. (120 minutes in 27oC).
  2. Sprinkle flour on to working surface and roll out the dough with a rolling pin to obtain a large rectangle 3mm thick.
  3. Cut into rectangles about 1 inch wide by 4 inches long with a crinkle-edged wheel or with a knife. Leave as is, or cut a 2-inch slit down the center of each rectangle to make a hole that will spread open as it cooks. Skip one of the ends of the rectangle through the slit and pull it back, to give a kind of spiral or corkscrew effect to the strips of dough.
  4. Put the bugnes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat and let stand for 1 hour.
  5. In a shallow skillet, heat 3 cups of oil to 170oC. Put 4 or 5 strips of dough into the hot oil and cook for about 1 minute on one side, then turn with tongs and continue cooking for another minute. Lift the bugnes from the oil and place on a wire rack while you repeat with the remaining dough.
  6. Then sprinkle with powdered sugar on both sides. Served hot with tea or coffee.

They are the equivalent of french doughnuts. It's a tradition here in France, to eat bugnes for the Mardis gras. To have a delicious snack time, you will need to add icing sugar 🙂 Find the instructions down below to learn how to make those fabulous bugnes ! C'est un peu mon péché mignon. En plus d'en faire pour Mardi gras, j'en fais toute l'année !

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