Calas

Name: Calas
Yield: Makes about 25
Ingredients: 2.5 ml/½ tsp ground ginger; 5 ml/1 tsp grated lemon rind; 5 ml/1 tsp easy bake (rapid-rise) dried yeast; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp salt; 50 g/2 oz/generous ⅓ cup pudding rice; 280 ml/10 fl oz/1¼ cups milk; 140 ml/5 fl oz/⅝ cup water; 2 eggs; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 2.5 ml/½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg; 125 g/4½ oz/generous 1 cup unbleached white bread flour; oil, for deep-frying; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting

Preparation info

Makes about
25

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook

By Jennie Shapter

Published 2010

About

These tasty morsels are a Creole speciality, made from a rice-based yeast dough which is then deep-fried. They are delicious served warm with coffee or as a breakfast treat.

Ingredients

50 g/2 oz/generous ⅓ cup pudding rice
280

Bread
Breakfast
Vegetarian

Method

Place the rice, milk and water in a pan and slowly bring to the boil. Lower the heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the rice is soft and the liquid absorbed. Leave to cool.
Add the eggs to the bread machine pan. Reverse the order in which you add the wet and dry ingredients if necessary.
Add the rice. S