woensdag 9 december 2015

Applebeignets, 14 days until Christmas

 
I love to eat these. It is something we eat only on new years eve and comes with its own tradition. Calling my grandmother for the recipe, even though we know it by heart and isn’t at all that hard to remember.

There are many different recipes for Apple beignets, but this one is the one I use and also suitable for vegans. As there is no use for milk, eggs or any other animal relatable foods.
It is not a recipe with exact measurement, it is one by feel.

Ingredients:
1 bottle of beer
Flour
A pinch of salt
2-4 Apple
Lemon juice
Cinnamon
Dark brown sugar.
Oil to fry them in
Icing sugar to sprinkle on top.

How to:
1. Peel the apples and cut them into slices. Squeeze a bit of lemon juice over them to keep them from turning brown. Make sure it won’t swim in the juice. If it is too wet you will make it hard on yourself.
2. Pore the bottle of beer into a bowl and at the flour until a thick, gloopy texture is created and of course at the pinch of salt as well. To test the mixture, try one slice of apple and see if the mixture sticks to it. If the mixture isn’t thick enough, it will not stick properly to the apple and the oil will go inside too much and causes the end result to be too greasy and crunchy. The mixture you can see in the video is too thin and didn’t work the way it should.
3. At the sugar and the cinnamon  to the apples. Make sure to cover them completely.
4.
Fill a deep pan with the oil and let it heat until 180◦C or until a small piece of bread would be attacked by bubbles immediately (turn brown in 15 seconds). It’s important the oil is hot enough.
5. Put a couple of apple slices into the mixture and make sure, both sides are covered completely. Then carefully put them into the hot oil and wait for them to turn golden brown. In order to get both side fried, turn them with a fork.
Then when they have turned golden brown, remove the from the oil and put them on some paper towel to let the excess oil to leak.
6. Serve them on a plate and sprinkle them with icing sugar.

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