Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi
Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi

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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.

Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi is something which I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi:
  1. Get 300 gr (10 oz) cottage cheese, drained
  2. Get caster sugar
  3. Take baking soda
  4. Get orange zest
  5. Prepare plain flour
  6. Take (2 x.32 oz) vanilla sugar
  7. Get 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. Romanian Papanaşi is a famous treat there.

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.

Honestly it makes me want to hop on the next plane just for this. Romanian Papanaşi is a fried cheese doughnut the hole of the doughnut is placed on top and in between it is smothered with cherry preserves and topped with confectioners sugar. Papanași is a Romanian and Moldovan traditional fried or boiled pastry, doughnut shaped with a small sphere on top. They are usually filled with a soft cheese such as urdă. Papanași are served covered in sour cream and with a sour jam topping.

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