Pumpkin Fritter Doughnuts
Ingredients
Directions
- Step 1:
Preheat oven to 200ºC.
- Step 2:
Place pumpkin onto baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil and season with a
little salt. - Step 3:
Bake for until soft.
- Step 4:
Mash the pumpkin with a potato masher and measure off 125ml.
- Step 5:
Dissolve yeast in milk, add yolks and stir well.
- Step 6:
Combine flour, salt and pumpkin. Add soft butter.
- Step 7:
Pour in milk mixture and combine all ingredients well.
- Step 8:
Knead for about on a floured surface. You may need to add a bit more flour until your dough is combined, but not sticky.
- Step 9:
Return to large bowl and cover with a cloth. Allow to double in size. About .
- Step 10:
Knead dough (knock back) gently to return to original size. Divide into 16 equal sized balls.
- Step 11:
Shape into ring doughnuts by pushing index finger through a ball of dough and widening the hole until a ring doughnut is formed. Make an extra-large hole, because during rising it will get smaller.
- Step 12:
Place doughnuts onto a floured tray and cover with a cloth. Allow to double in size.
- Step 13:
Fry in hot oil until golden on both sides, flipping over each doughnut to fry on the reverse side. Test to see if the oil is hot enough by putting a little bread in oil. If it bubbles, the oil is hot enough for the doughnuts.
- Step 14:
Drain doughnuts on kitchen towel before tossing in cinnamon sugar.
