Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, loukoumades. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Loukoumades is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Loukoumades is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water in a small bowl. In a large bowl, mix the warm milk, sugar, and salt, and mix to dissolve. Loukoumades are little bite-sized fluffy sweet honey balls (the Greek version of donuts), which are deep fried to golden and crispy perfection. Greek donuts (loukoumades) are traditionally served soaked in hot honey syrup, sprinkled with cinnamon and garnished with chopped walnuts or toasted sesame seeds.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have loukoumades using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Loukoumades:
- Prepare 20 g dried yeast
- Take 1 tsp salt flakes
- Get 2 and 1/3 cups of plain flour
- Get Vegetable oil for frying
- Get Honey for drizzle
- Get White chocolate, melted, for drizzle
You grab a fist full of dough in your hand (we're right handed, so we grab the dough with our left hand) and you squeeze so that a ball of dough oozes though the space created between your thumb and forefinger (or pointer finger). Sift the flour into a large bowl, add salt, and mix the dried yeast into the flour. Using the lukewarm water, slowly add to the flour, mixing with an electric mixer until all the water has been added and the mixture is smooth. The ingredient list for traditional Greek loukoumades is very simple, flour, sugar, yeast, salt, sesame seeds, cinnamon, and loads and loads of honey — preferably Greek honey if you can find it!
Steps to make Loukoumades:
- To make the dough, dissolve yeast, 425 ml water and salt in a bowl of mixer. Add flour to the mixture and return it to the mixer and mix using whisk attachment for 10-15 minutes or until the dough no longer sticks to the side. Transfer to larger bowl and cover with plastic wrap and set aside to prove for 2 hours.
- Once doubled in size, firmly knead the dough to release air bubbles and transfer mixture to piping bag.
- Heat oil for deep frying. Pipe golf sized balls into the hot oil. Deep fry till lightly golden and cooked through. Drain on paper towel.
- Arrange the fried loukoumades on a large plate and drizzle over the honey and white chocolate generously. Sprinkle nuts for extra crunch, serve hot.
Using the lukewarm water, slowly add to the flour, mixing with an electric mixer until all the water has been added and the mixture is smooth. The ingredient list for traditional Greek loukoumades is very simple, flour, sugar, yeast, salt, sesame seeds, cinnamon, and loads and loads of honey — preferably Greek honey if you can find it! And don't forget the canola oil for frying. How to Make Traditional Greek Loukoumades: Loukoumades is a typical Greek street food dessert, very popular both in and outside Greece. While waiting, measure out flour, sugar and salt into a separate bowl and mix to incorporate sugar and salt into flour.
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