Quick beignets

A delicious dessert, ready in less than 30 minutes! These donuts are very soft and easy to prepare and they can be an alternative to the Dutch “oliebollen”, with the advantage that the preparation takes less time.

Prep: 10 min

Cook: 10 min

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients for 30 beignets:

200 g plain yogurt

1 egg

3 tbsp sugar

1 pack vanilla sugar

1 tsp backing powder

150 g flour

Sunfloweroil

Icing sugar

Method

Beat first the egg and then add the yogurt and mix a little bit. Add the sugar, vanilla sugar and backing powder and mix one more minute.

Finally add the flour and mix to a smooth batter without any lumps.

Heat the sunflower oil. Scoop with a tsp batter from the bowl, drop it carefully into the hot oil and fry it. After 1-2 min turn the beignet. Fry more beignets at a time and drain them on kitchen paper.

Sprinkle them with icing sugar.

My tips:

You can add raisins or chocolate flakes into the batter, but the beignets are so soft and delicate, therefore I prefer the simple ones.
Cook the beignets shortly, otherwise they will get to brown.

Enjoy it!

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