🇫🇷 French Vegetarian

Beignets

Name: Beignets
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Butter; 1/2 tsp Salt; for deep frying Vegetable Oil; 3/4 cup, warm Milk; 2 cups All-Purpose Flour; 1/4 cup + for dusting Sugar; 2 tsp Baking Powder

🇫🇷 French

New Orleans by way of France — square pillows of fried dough under a snowfall of sugar, served so hot the sugar melts on contact. The napkin under them is not decoration; it's the point.

Prep 25 min Cook 15 min Serves 6 Medium

Ingredients

Butter2 tbsp
Salt1/2 tsp
Vegetable Oilfor deep frying
Milk3/4 cup, warm
All-Purpose Flour2 cups
Sugar1/4 cup + for dusting
Baking Powder2 tsp

Instructions

1
Warm milk with butter and sugar; add flour and baking powder to a soft dough; rest 30 minutes.
2
Roll into a rectangle and cut into squares.
3
Fry in 180°C oil till they puff and flip themselves golden.
4
Drain briefly.
5
Snow with sugar while screaming hot; serve in threes, as tradition demands.

Chef's tip

Cut squares evenly — the odd-shaped ones fry up lopsided, which is charming but unsanctioned.

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Watch how it's made

Video: Beignets Recipe · on YouTube