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HOME-MADE DONUTS

Faith Mandebvu2 Comments

You don’t need any excellent culinary skills to make donuts, anyone can do it! All you need is plenty of time. With the lock down in place, you have plenty of time. 🙂

Tips for the dough. The very first step in creating donuts is blooming your yeast, dissolve sugar into lukewarm milk, then stir in the yeast.  To test if your dough is ready, lightly press your thumb into the dough. In about 5 seconds or so, the dough should bounce almost completely back.

Let the dough rise. Donut dough needs to rise twice. First, the dough itself, then the punched out donuts. While the second rise is happening, begin heating up your oil and making your glaze!

HOME-MADE DONUTS

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup milk
  • ¼ cup xylitol sugar
  • 10 grams active dry yeast
  • 4 cups cake wheat flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 6 tbsp melted butter
  • 2 large eggs
  • ½ tsp vanilla essence
  • ½ cup lemon juice
  • Canola oil for frying

Ingredients for glaze:

  • 1 cup icing sugar
  • ¼ cup milk
  • ½ tsp vanilla essence
  • 3 tbsp cocoa powder

Instructions:

  1. In a bowl, pour milk and microwave for 1 minute. Add 1 tsp of sugar and stir into the milk. Sprinkle the yeast over the milk and let it sit for 10 minutes.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk the eggs, yeast mixture, sugar, vanilla essence and butter together.
  3. In a large bowl, pour the flour and salt and add the whisked egg mixture to the flour. Mix well with a spatula until a dough is formed.
  4. Knead the dough for 5 minutes and let the dough sit for 1 hour in a warm spot in your kitchen. Cover the dough with a clean dish towel.
  5. Knead the dough again and roll it out into a rectangular shape. Use a donut cutter to create donut rings and let them rise for 40 minutes.
  6. In a large pot, pour canola oil and bring to medium heat.
  7. Fry the donuts in batches until golden brown on both sides.
  8. Transfer donuts to paper towel-lined baking sheet to drain and cool slightly. Dip the donuts into glaze, then place onto a cooling rack.

Instructions for glaze:

  1. Pour the glaze ingredients in a bowl and mix well until smooth.

PREP TIME: 1HR 4O MIN                                              COOKING TIME: 20 MIN

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SORGHUM PANCAKES WITH CHICKPEA SOUP

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Let’s go organic!

Have you ever tried using sorghum flour? There are many perks associated with using this wonderful ingredient. First, it is an affordable ingredient 🙂

If you are intolerant to gluten, then make sorghum your best friend forever. If you’re looking for a nutritious grain to add to your next meal, give sorghum a try. Sorghum is rich in a variety of nutrients such as B vitamins, which play an essential role in metabolism, neural development, and skin and hair health.

SORGHUM PANCAKES INGREDIENTS:
  • 1 cup sorghum flour
  • 1 cup self-rising flour
  • 2 cup milk
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tbsp xylitol sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp canola oil
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
METHOD:
  1. In a bowl, whisk the eggs, oil and milk until fully blended.
  2. In another bowl, mix the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
  3. Pour the egg mixture into the flour and mix well until smooth.
  4. Put the butter in a pan under medium-low heat and let the butter melt.
  5. Use a scoop to pour the sorghum batter into the pan.
  6. After every 20 seconds, flip the pancake until it is fully done.
CHICKPEA RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
  • 150 grams chickpeas
  • 1 tomato
  • 1 tbsp minestrone powder
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • 100 ml vegetable stock
  • 2 heaped tbsp butter
METHOD:
  1. Soak the chickpeas overnight in a bowl.
  2. Rinse the chickpeas and pour them into a pot.
  3. Add 750 ml of water to the chickpeas and bring them to boil for 90 minutes under medium heat.
  4. Add salt to the chickpeas after 30 minutes of boiling.
  5. When the chickpeas are done cooking, add the butter and chopped garlic to the pot then sauté for 1 minute.
  6. Add chopped tomatoes to the chickpeas and sprinkle turmeric powder then simmer for 5 minutes until the tomatoes are fully dissolved.
  7. Mix the minestrone with vegetable stock and pour it to the chickpeas.
  8. Let the chickpeas simmer and add more water for more soup. Enjoy!

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