Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, romanian cheese doughnuts – papanasi. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Romanian cheese doughnuts – Papanasi is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

They are a typical Romanian dessert, basically cheese doughnuts. There are two kinds of Romanian fried doughnuts: fried or boiled papanasi. Both kinds are made with the Romanian branza de vaci, which means cow's cheese.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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. Make ready 80 gr (3 oz) caster sugar
3. Make ready 2 gr (1 pinch) baking soda
4. Get 8 gr (1 tsp) orange zest
5. Make ready 100 gr (3.5 oz) plain flour
6. Prepare 14 gr (2 x.32 oz) vanilla sugar
7. Prepare 2 gr (1 pinch) salt
8. Get neutral flavored oil for deep fry (canola, sun flower)

Papanași (pronounce it 'papanash') are a kind of doughnut-shaped sweets made of cow's soft cheese similar to ricotta or cottage cheese, flour. How to Cook Romanian Cheese Doughnuts (Papanasi) Add the eggs and sugar in a large bowl. Set up your mixer and mix until the sugar has been absorbed. Add the lemon zest, vanilla extract, cream cheese, flour, and lemon juice.

Steps 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.

Mix with a spatula until you obtain a smooth, silky dough. Dust your working space with flour. Papanasi (read papanashi) are a traditional Romanian dessert made of cow's cheese, eggs, bicarb of sofa and flour, and flavoured with lemon zest. They are similar to a fried donut that is topped with a donut ball, and served with lots of sour cream and jam. Traditional Romanian fried doughnuts - Papanași (papanash) - made with cottage cheese and topped with smetana and jam.

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