Pączki
Rich Polish doughnuts, fried golden and filled with rose or berry jam — the star of Fat Thursday.
Photo: Karolina Kołodziejczak / Unsplash
⏱ 150 min📶 Hard👫 Serves 2🥬 Vegetarian
Ingredients (for 2)
- All-purpose flour, 400 g
- Milk, 200 ml, warm
- Instant yeast, 7 g
- Sugar, 60 g
- Egg yolks, 4
- Butter, 60 g, melted
- Rum or vanilla, 1 tsp
- Oil for frying
- Jam & powdered sugar, to finish
Steps
- Mix everything except the butter into a soft dough, then knead in the butter until smooth and elastic.
- Let rise for about 1 hour until doubled.
- Pat out 1.5 cm thick, cut 7 cm rounds and let them rise again for 30 minutes.
- Fry at 170°C for 2 minutes per side, drain, pipe in jam and dust with powdered sugar.
Cook it together: One of you fries, the other fills with jam — keep one unfilled to see who can tell the difference.
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