Ingredients

• 2 cups - all-purpose flour
• 1 cup - Luke warm water
• 1/3 cup -sugar
• 4 tsp -yeast
• 2 tbsp -softened butter
• 1 tsp - salt
• 1 tsp -vanilla essence
• Chocolate sauce - as required
• Oil for frying

How to Make Chocolate Stuffed Eggless Doughnut

• Take the yeast in a glass and mix it in the milk adding 1 tbsp sugar to it.
• Keep it aside for 10 mins or till it rises.
• Take the flour, 1/3 cup sugar and salt in a bowl.
• Add the risen yeast and vanilla essence to the flour mixture and knead it gently till you get a smooth and very soft dough.
• Add the softened butter and knead gently for 3 more mins.
• Cover it with a plastic wrap and keep in a warm place to rise, approximately 30 mins -1 hour
• Once the dough has risen to double its quantity, knead it lightly again to take out the air.
• The dough would be little sticky at this stage, so keep extra flour handy as you may need to add some while kneading.
• Dust the rolling pin and the rolling surface with flour and roll out the dough to 1 cm thickness.
• Cut out circles of approximately 3 inch diameter.
• Pour the thick chocolate sauce or chopped chocolate.
• Carefully take the edge and bring to the centre and press to secure.
• Continue this till the entire portion with chocolate sauce/chocolate piece is covered.
• Using a bottle cap, cut off the middle portion to get doughnut shape.
• Keep the cut out doughnuts on a flour dusted plate for rising for another 30 minutes or till it doubles in size.
• For frying:
• Heat oil in a deep bottomed pan on medium heat.
• Test the oil by dropping in bits of dough.
• If the dough floats immediately after immersing, it means the heat is right.
• Now gently drop the doughnuts into the oil one after the other.
• If the dough has risen enough, they would float immediately in the oil.
• Fry the doughnuts on a medium flame till it is golden brown by constantly flipping them over.
• Drain onto an absorbent paper.
• Glaze it according to your liking and serve warm.
• For baking:
• Bake the doughnuts in a preheated oven of 200 C for approximately 8 minutes or till it turns golden brown in colour.
• Recipe Courtesy: Mareena's Recipe Collections