The Sourdough Experiments: Doughnots

in #keto5 years ago

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That's what you might call a deliberate typo, dear readers. Mainly because this is NOT how you make doughnuts. Honestly, it's something like a cross between a bagel and a beignet with a dash of carrot.

Enough blither. Let's move on to the recipe.

Instruments

  • Mixing bowl
  • Mixing instrument [I used a bell whisk]
  • Two spoons of equal size
  • A means of deep-ish frying

Ingredients

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[Pardon the mess]

  • Sourdough starter harvest(s) - roughly an entire cup
  • Wholemeal flour swept off the previous loaves - roughly half a cup
  • 1 cup almond meal
  • 3 eggs
  • 5 tsp (equivalent) sweetener of choice
  • About a cup of grated carrot
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    I took this much carrot and grated it. Yielding about a cup of carrot shreds.
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Instructions

NGL - I was in pure experiment mode, so I played mostly by ear.

  • Whisk together the flours and sweetener
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  • Add in your starter yields and eggs. I tried mixing them in separately, and...
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    Very stiff doughy blob. Not fun. It's much better behaved with the eggs in there.
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    At this point it was looking more like doughnut batter, so I added in the carrot
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  • For best results, just smash that lot around with your mixing implements. I tried sort of folding it around with the whisk, but... smooshing it about got a better blend. Go figure.
    Now for the fun!

  • Warm up your deep fryer to 180 Celsius [~350-360F]
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  • Add small amounts of dough to the hot oil
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    An entire soup spoon's worth was too much...
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    About half worked out just right.

  • I did not time how long they cooked, I just turned them and added blobs to the oil as I saw fit, but using the double-turn system, I got all of them cooked properly. I could also continually cook up to four at a time.
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The large one was still goopy in the middle, but not bad goopy in the middle, according to Miss T.

The end result were golden-brown, crispy, crunchy, delightfully delectable... eldritch horrors.

I had five. They are a little bit goopy in the middle, still, but not terribly so. I'd recommend serving with creamy goodness of one form or another.