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French Crullers Recipe
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French Crullers Recipe

A vegetarian European recipe with all purpose flour (maida), whole eggs, egg whites. Ready in 1h 10m, serves 4.

Curated byKavya Sharma🇮🇳

Calories
550kcal
Estimated Cost
250-400
Carbs65g
Protein40g
Fats15g
Servings Scaler
4

Instructions

33 steps
  1. 1

    To prepare French crullers recipe, add water, sugar, butter and salt into a Saucepan, and bring it to boil

    butter(3 tablespoon)salt(0.1 teaspoon)lukewarm water(1/2 cup)icing sugar(1 cup)
  2. 2

    Once all butter is melted, add flour all at once and start stirring continuously, breaking all the lumps, until the dough comes together

    all purpose flour (maida)(1/2 cup)butter(3 tablespoon)
  3. 3

    You will start seeing a thin coating of the dough on the pan

  4. 4

    Reduce heat and continue to cook with constant stirring for another 2 to 3 minutes

  5. 5

    We are trying to remove the moisture from the dough as much possible

  6. 6

    Remove the dough from heat, let it cool down for about 10 minutes

  7. 7

    Once dough is cooled a bit, add 1 egg at a time and keep beating with hand beater or stand mixer

  8. 8

    Beat until the egg is completely incorporated into the dough

  9. 9

    Then add the next egg and beat until incorporated well

  10. 10

    Now add 1 egg white at a time and beat well

  11. 11

    Add the next egg white, beat again

  12. 12

    Beat well until you see smooth, shiny, sticky dough

  13. 13

    Put the dough in a piping bag attached to rose (star nozzle)

  14. 14

    Heat oil for deep frying in a Pan

    sunflower oil - to frying
  15. 15

    Cut a couple of 4 x 4 inch square shaped parchment papers

  16. 16

    Grease it with oil

  17. 17

    Squeeze the dough onto to parchment papers

  18. 18

    You can pipe about size 3-inch crullers onto the paper

  19. 19

    Once oil is hot (about 370 degree Fahrenheit), you can start frying crullers on medium heat

    sunflower oil - to frying
  20. 20

    Lift the parchment paper and drop it into hot oil with dough side down

  21. 21

    Wait for a couple of seconds or a minute when the dough leaves the parchment paper

  22. 22

    Using tongs to lift the paper out of oil

  23. 23

    You can add a few crullers at a time depending on the size of the pan you use to fry

  24. 24

    Make sure to fry crullers in low flame, flipping it side to side until it’s fried to golden brown

  25. 25

    Remove from oil and place the fried crullers on kitchen towel

  26. 26

    Repeat this for rest of the dough

  27. 27

    Place all the crullers on wire mesh to cool completely

  28. 28

    Now whisk together icing sugar, honey and milk into smooth glaze

    honey(1 tablespoon)icing sugar(1 cup)to 2 milk(1 tablespoon)
  29. 29

    Dip a cruller fully into the glaze using a fork and remove it and place it on wire mesh to rest for 1 to 2 hours

  30. 30

    That’s it crullers are ready

  31. 31

    I wanted to add a little zing, so I grated a little bit of lime zest on top

  32. 32

    You can even go ahead with orange zest, grate it on top or mix it in glaze

  33. 33

    Serve Crullers recipe as a breakfast or snack along with coffee to enjoy the crispy donuts

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