Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi
Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi

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Traditional Romanian fried doughnuts - papanasi (papanash) - made with cottage cheese and topped with smetana and jam. These papanasi or Romanian fried donuts/doughnuts are the best donuts ever!!! Soft yet crunchy, oozing with sour cream and blueberry jam, ever bite is a complete.

Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook romanian cheese doughnuts – papanasi using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi:
  1. Get 300 gr (10 oz) cottage cheese, drained
  2. Prepare 80 gr (3 oz) caster sugar
  3. Prepare 2 gr (1 pinch) baking soda
  4. Take 8 gr (1 tsp) orange zest
  5. Make ready 100 gr (3.5 oz) plain flour
  6. Prepare 14 gr (2 x.32 oz) vanilla sugar
  7. Make ready 2 gr (1 pinch) salt
  8. Make ready neutral flavored oil for deep fry (canola, sun flower)

Romanian Papanaşi is a fried cheese doughnut the hole of the doughnut is placed on top and in between it is smothered with cherry preserves and topped with confectioners sugar. How to Cook Romanian Cheese Doughnuts (Papanasi). Add the eggs and sugar in a large bowl. Set up your mixer and mix until the sugar has been absorbed.

Instructions to make Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi:
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  2. In a bowl add cottage cheese, baking soda, sugar, orange zest, vanilla sugar, eggs and 30 gr (1 oz) flour.
  3. Mix well. Keep 2 tbsp of flour and add the rest gradually in the bowl until the dough sticks together.
  4. Put the two tablespoons of flour kept on your cooking surface and pour the dough on it.
  5. Knead just until incorporated.
  6. Split the dough in 4 even pieces.
  7. Shape the doughnuts; about 8 cm (3 inches) disc-shaped and cut out the center.
  8. Shape the dough from cutting the center into balls.
  9. Pour the oil in a pan and properly heat it.
  10. Deep fry the doughnuts at medium temperature 175°C (275°F), 4 minutes on each side.
  11. Drain the doughnuts on a paper towel.
  12. Put one hot doughnut on a plate, garnish with one tablespoon of sour cream, put one ball over and garnish with a teaspoon of preferred jam.

Add the lemon zest, vanilla extract, cream cheese, flour, and lemon juice. Mix with a spatula until you obtain a smooth, silky dough. Papanași is a Romanian and Moldovan traditional fried or boiled pastry, doughnut shaped with a small sphere on top. They are usually filled with a soft cheese such as urdă. Papanași are served covered in sour cream and with a sour jam topping.

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