Italian Food Recipes

Doughnuts of potatoes are another typical Italian dessert prepared in the occasion of Carnival. The following recipe is that of classical doughnuts that you can eat in each regions of Italy. They are very delicious!









INGREDIENTS (for 8 people):
500 g of Flour
3 Potatoes
2 Eggs
80 g of Butter
4 Tablespoons of sugar
25 g of Yeast
Extra virgin olive oil to fry
Icing sugar

PRPEPARATION TIME: 2 hours

COOKING TIME: 30 minutes

WINE: Moscato d’Asti (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Clean and peel the potatoes. Boil them for about 20 minutes, when they are ready let them cool and then mash them.

Place the mashed potatoes in a bowl, mix them with the flour, the sugar and the yeast
and add the eggs.

Mix all together in order to obtain homogeneous dough and let it rise for about 1 hour.

After this time add in the middle of the dough the butter.


Knead the dough, make many small snakes of dough, join the end and so you obtain doughnuts.


Let them rise for about 20 minutes.


Preheat the oil in a pan and, when it is hot, fry the doughnuts in it until they become golden.

Place them on a sheet of a kitchen paper in order to remove the oil in excess.


Sprinkle them with some icing sugar.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!