Name: Beignets
Yield: Yield: 8 Portions
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 1 lb/454 g all-purpose flour; 1 cup/240 mL milk; 2 fl oz/60 mL melted butter; Confectioners’ sugar, as needed, for dusting; ½ tsp/1.5 g kosher salt; Vegetable oil, as needed, for deep-frying; 1 tbsp/10 g dry yeast; 2 eggs, beaten

Preparation info

Yield:
8
Portions

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Street Foods

By Hinnerk von Bargen and Culinary Institute of America

Published 2015

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Ingredients

Dough

1 lb/454 g all-purpose flour
½ tsp/1.5

Method

In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, yeast, milk, eggs, and butter until smooth and elastic, 2 to 3 minutes. Add more flour as needed to adjust the dough. Place the dough in a bowl with a tight-fitting lid or cover with plastic wrap and allow to proof in a warm place until it has doubled in size, about 1 hour.
On a well-floured surface, roll the dou