Sfenj

Deep-Fried Moroccan Doughnuts

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    12–16

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Robert Carrier

Published 1987

  • About

The doughnut maker may be a favourite stopping-off place for a street snack or breakfast, but sfenj are fun to make at home too. While I cannot promise you will be as deft and sure in your movements as the sfenj maker himself, the results will be delicious.

This traditional recipe for sfenj uses no lightening agent other than yeast, and as a result is not as light as an Austrian cruller or American doughnut. To my mind it needs none. It is wholesome and s