Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi
Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi

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

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.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have romanian cheese doughnuts – papanasi using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

Set up your mixer and mix until the sugar has been absorbed. 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.

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.

They are usually filled with a soft cheese such as urdă. Papanași are served covered in sour cream and with a sour jam topping. With crème fraiche, Polish sour cherry compote and Latvian gingerbread streusel. Delight guests and show off your cooking skills this holiday season by cooking up this traditional Romanian dessert, Papanasi. Romanian Papanaşi is a famous treat there.

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