Farmers Cheese Donuts

Elena Butuc

This recipe was automatically translated from Romanian. View original here

In our country they were made at all events - weddings, birthdays, etc. and must be served with plenty of honey on the plate. I really like that they are delicious and warm or cold, even after 1-2 days. The dough is similar to that of Romanian papanasi, only that the shape and the way of presentation differ a little. I make them quite often, many ask me for the recipe, and I said to put them on the site, so that I don't have much to tell everyone.

The quantities of flour can vary depending on the type of cheese used, I would recommend taking for something like this always drier cheese, without much whey.

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Ingredients

Metric US

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Farmers cheese

500 g

choose drier cheese

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Egg

1 piece

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Sugar

2 tbsp

to taste

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Baking soda

0.5 tsp

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White flour

4 tbsp

plus flour for working on the table

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Salt

0.25 tsp

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Vanilla Extract

1 tbsp

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Sunflower oil

500 ml

for frying

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Honey

5 tbsp

to taste

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Powdered sugar

1 tsp

optional

Step by step

Step 1

Put cheese, egg, salt, sugar, baking soda, vanilla in a bowl, mix.

Step 2

Add flour, mix with a spoon.

Step 3

Sprinkle a lot of flour on the work table and with a spatula / spoon remove the dough from the bowl.

It is normal for the dough to be more sticky, if you put a lot of flour in it, the papanas will be hard and not tender at all.

Step 4

Gently level the dough ball with your hands, it helps you with a lot of flour not to stick to your hands.

Step 5

Cut small pieces of dough with a knife - about the size of a walnut.

Step 6

Take each piece with your hands sprinkled with flour and form small balls.

Step 7

Heat the oil well in a deeper pan or pan - make sure the oil level is high enough for the papanas to float in it. That's why I use small tuci to make 2-3 rounds of papanasi, but the oil level can be higher at a relatively lower amount of oil.

Step 8

After you have hardened the oil well and put the papanas to be fried, make sure that it is a medium heat - so that it is done freely and does not crow.

You look good on both sides.