Eggless doughnuts

Doughnuts are an extremely tasty snack. It can also be had for breakfast. Most of the places you buy doughnuts from add eggs. Here I am going to show you the easiest way to make doughnuts. There are 2 ways of making them, you can use any one which suits you the best.

Ingredients

1 cup maida/ all purpose flour (Read the post on what's in a cup before starting)

1/2 packet of milk powder

1/2 cup ghee

1 spoon yeast

1 spoon sugar

Cooking chocolate (optional)

Icing sugar (optional)

Cinnamon (optional)

Method

In a mixing bowl add the maida, milk powder and ghee. In a cup of hot water add yeast and sugar. Leave for about 5 minutes. Add the yeast and sugar with water in the maida mixture and make a dough. Leave the dough to rise by covering it with a moist muslin cloth for about 2 hours. After 2 hours, shape the dough in rounds with a hole by wrapping it around your first finger and rotating it round. Alternately, shape the dough in round using a rolling pin and make hole in the centre using a cork of a bottle. Make sure not to make a big hole in the centre. To cook there are 2 methods. The first method is to pre heat the oven to 180C. Bake the doughnuts for about 7-10 minutes or till light brown. Alternately you can deep fry the doughnuts in ghee. Top with melted chocolate and/or icing sugar. If you like the taste of cinnamon, add a pinch in the dough before adding the yeast and sugar mixture.

PS: To make the doughnuts look even more attractive you can use pink and blue colour icing. These icings are readily available in the market. Add a thick coat of the icing on top of your doughnut and sprinkle chocolate flakes. Always serve the doughnuts hot or warm. If you are not a big fan of icing you can also  sprinkle icing sugar with the help of a sieve and serve.