Savory Indian Doughnuts
From luisascatering 12 years ago
- n/a to make
- Serves 16
While searching for ideas on savory doughnuts I came across one that had a spicy pea filling and used refrigerated biscuit dough. I thought the filling sounded delicious but wanted a homemade dough for it. I thought why not try my piroshki dough, filled with the spicy pea filling then deep-fried? Read more It WORKED and they are soooo delicious. See less
Ingredients
- For the filling: shopping list
- 1 tablespoon ghee (clarified butter) shopping list
- 2 Cups frozen organic peas, thawed shopping list
- 1 small onion, minced shopping list
- 1 clove garlic, minced shopping list
- 1 teaspoon nigella seeds shopping list
- 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger shopping list
- 2 Thai or other spicy chillies, chopped shopping list
- ½ teaspoon cumin powder shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder shopping list
- fresh lemon juice, to taste shopping list
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro leaves shopping list
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- for the dough: shopping list
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter shopping list
- 1 cup organic whole milk shopping list
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar shopping list
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt shopping list
- 2 large organic eggs shopping list
- 4 cups unbleached all purpose flour, plus more as needed shopping list
- 1 package (2 1/4 teaspoons) yeast shopping list
How to make it
- For the dough:
- Add all ingredients in order to your bread machine and set on "dough" cycle (if you don't have a bread machine, let me know if you need "by hand" directions).
- To make the filling:
- Coarsely crush the peas in a food processor. Heat the oil in a small saucepan, add the onions. Once they brown up, add the ginger and chillies and cook for a minute, stirring well. Mix in the powdered spices and after toasting them for a few seconds, the peas. Add the herbs and then allow the filling to cool down. Season with salt and lemon juice to taste.
- Assemble & Fry:
- Divide dough into 16 balls. Roll out each one, take it in your cupped palm See Photo. Place a tablespoon of the filling in the center, and close the dough around the filling, removing all the air inside and pinching it closed See Photo. Press the dough to flatten it a bit more. Be gentle to avoid tearing the dough. Repeat with the remaining circles of dough.
- Meanwhile, heat a couple of inches of oil for deep-frying. Fry the doughnuts on medium heat, 4-6 at a time, depending on the size of the pan See Photo. Turn them once to make sure that they are deeply browned on both sides. *IMPORTANT: if the oil is too hot, the dough will brown on the outside before the inside gets cooked*.
- Drain on paper towels and serve hot. (I cut them all in half for a party).
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