Sufganiyot are the perfect treat for your Chanuka celebration. The home-made version is sooo much better than the store-bought kind!
Ingredients:
- (1/4 ounce) package active dry yeast or 1⁄2 ounce fresh yeast
- 2 tablespoons warm water
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 ounce margarine
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1⁄4 cup warm water
- oil (for frying)
- 9 teaspoons strawberry jelly, for filling (your choice of flavor)
- confectionar’s sugar
Instructions:
- Mix the yeast, 2 tablespoons warm water and sugar in a small bowl, and leave to stand till bubbly.
- Sift the flour and salt into a bowl.
- Rub the margarine into the flour. Make a well in the flour mixture and add the yeast mixture, the beaten egg and just enough of the warm water to make a soft dough.
- Beat well and kneed for 5 minutes on a floured board.
- Divide into 12 pieces.
- Kneed each piece and place apart on a greased sheet of foil
- Brush with water and cover with a greased plastic bag.
- Leave until they have doubled in size (about 45 minutes to an hour)
- Fry in enough oil to cover 1/3 of the sufganiyot, turning over once to brown both sides, about 3 minutes.
- Drain on absorbent paper.
- When cool enough to handle, but not to cool, insert the jelly in the middle, either with a syringe or make a hole with the handle of a spoon
- Sprinkle with confectioners sugar.
Enjoy!
Please follow us and share:
