Kaygana Fritters

Name: Kaygana Fritters (Kaygana)
Yield: To Serve 6-8
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 2 eggs; olive or sunflower oil for deep-frying; 100 g/3½ oz thick yoghurt; ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 100 g/4 oz strong plain flour; 1 quantity of syrup for lokmas

Kaygana

Preparation info

To Serve
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

Kaygana is like an unleavened version of lokma, and the yoghurt added to its filling gives it a different taste. The recipe below is from Konya.

Ingredients

100 g/3½ oz thick yoghurt
2 eggs
100

Asia
Turkey
Dessert
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Prepare the syrup.

Whisk the yoghurt and eggs together thoroughly. Add the flour and bicarbonate of soda and beat in with a wooden spoon.

Heat the oil. Dip a small spoon into cold oil first, then spoon up some dough, and push it off with your finger into the oil. Repeat until the dough is used up. Fry for 2-3 minutes, turning the kaygana over with a ladle until they are golden.