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🇮🇳
Instructions
33 steps- 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
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
You will start seeing a thin coating of the dough on the pan
- 4
Reduce heat and continue to cook with constant stirring for another 2 to 3 minutes
- 5
We are trying to remove the moisture from the dough as much possible
- 6
Remove the dough from heat, let it cool down for about 10 minutes
- 7
Once dough is cooled a bit, add 1 egg at a time and keep beating with hand beater or stand mixer
- 8
Beat until the egg is completely incorporated into the dough
- 9
Then add the next egg and beat until incorporated well
- 10
Now add 1 egg white at a time and beat well
- 11
Add the next egg white, beat again
- 12
Beat well until you see smooth, shiny, sticky dough
- 13
Put the dough in a piping bag attached to rose (star nozzle)
- 14
Heat oil for deep frying in a Pan
sunflower oil - to frying - 15
Cut a couple of 4 x 4 inch square shaped parchment papers
- 16
Grease it with oil
- 17
Squeeze the dough onto to parchment papers
- 18
You can pipe about size 3-inch crullers onto the paper
- 19
Once oil is hot (about 370 degree Fahrenheit), you can start frying crullers on medium heat
sunflower oil - to frying - 20
Lift the parchment paper and drop it into hot oil with dough side down
- 21
Wait for a couple of seconds or a minute when the dough leaves the parchment paper
- 22
Using tongs to lift the paper out of oil
- 23
You can add a few crullers at a time depending on the size of the pan you use to fry
- 24
Make sure to fry crullers in low flame, flipping it side to side until it’s fried to golden brown
- 25
Remove from oil and place the fried crullers on kitchen towel
- 26
Repeat this for rest of the dough
- 27
Place all the crullers on wire mesh to cool completely
- 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
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
That’s it crullers are ready
- 31
I wanted to add a little zing, so I grated a little bit of lime zest on top
- 32
You can even go ahead with orange zest, grate it on top or mix it in glaze
- 33
Serve Crullers recipe as a breakfast or snack along with coffee to enjoy the crispy donuts
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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🇮🇳
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Directions
33 steps- 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
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
You will start seeing a thin coating of the dough on the pan
- 4
Reduce heat and continue to cook with constant stirring for another 2 to 3 minutes
- 5
We are trying to remove the moisture from the dough as much possible
- 6
Remove the dough from heat, let it cool down for about 10 minutes
- 7
Once dough is cooled a bit, add 1 egg at a time and keep beating with hand beater or stand mixer
- 8
Beat until the egg is completely incorporated into the dough
- 9
Then add the next egg and beat until incorporated well
- 10
Now add 1 egg white at a time and beat well
- 11
Add the next egg white, beat again
- 12
Beat well until you see smooth, shiny, sticky dough
- 13
Put the dough in a piping bag attached to rose (star nozzle)
- 14
Heat oil for deep frying in a Pan
sunflower oil - to frying - 15
Cut a couple of 4 x 4 inch square shaped parchment papers
- 16
Grease it with oil
- 17
Squeeze the dough onto to parchment papers
- 18
You can pipe about size 3-inch crullers onto the paper
- 19
Once oil is hot (about 370 degree Fahrenheit), you can start frying crullers on medium heat
sunflower oil - to frying - 20
Lift the parchment paper and drop it into hot oil with dough side down
- 21
Wait for a couple of seconds or a minute when the dough leaves the parchment paper
- 22
Using tongs to lift the paper out of oil
- 23
You can add a few crullers at a time depending on the size of the pan you use to fry
- 24
Make sure to fry crullers in low flame, flipping it side to side until it’s fried to golden brown
- 25
Remove from oil and place the fried crullers on kitchen towel
- 26
Repeat this for rest of the dough
- 27
Place all the crullers on wire mesh to cool completely
- 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
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
That’s it crullers are ready
- 31
I wanted to add a little zing, so I grated a little bit of lime zest on top
- 32
You can even go ahead with orange zest, grate it on top or mix it in glaze
- 33
Serve Crullers recipe as a breakfast or snack along with coffee to enjoy the crispy donuts
Rate this recipe


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