Small Batch Beignets (Bread Machine)
"All the beignet recipes I've seen so far make enough to serve an army. Here's one that makes beignets for three or four people, adapted for fast and easy prep. Exactly like the breathtakingly light and airy doughnuts I've enjoyed many times at Cafe du Monde."
- Ready In:
- 33mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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3-4
ingredients
directions
- Measure all your ingredients out and have everything ready to go.
- Heat the shortening and water together until the shortening is melted and the whole mixture is very warm but not scalding hot. Pour into bread machine.
- Turn machine on and quickly add the other ingredients in the order listed and allow the bread machine to knead the dough for the full dough cycle.
- Remove dough from pan to a flour-dusted surface and roll thin. Cut into squares and fry in hot oil just long enough for them to golden brown.
- Drain and serve sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- Tip: Beignets puff up two inches thick or more, so you need at least a couple of inches of oil in your pan.
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Reviews
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Hands down the closest to a Cafe du Monde I've made....light and airy, I did add a teaspoon of vanilla....easy recipe. -
Warning: Do Not Boil the shortening and water for 5 min.!!!! This will explode around 3.5 min. into the process and send boiling hot oil and water showering down all over your kitchen (it flew 12 feet in my kitchen!) Thank God I had turned my back and was facing the inside of the fridge retrieving an egg or I would have burns all over the front of me! After this happened I began looking at other recipes and information online and found this article talking about the same thing happening with a recipe from Southern Living! <br/><br/>http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=127929<br/><br/>I followed this recipe, except I boiled the water and then poured it over the shortening in a separate bowl away from the stove and then continued with the recipe as written. I did let them rise again after I cut them out and before I fried them. They were good, I had hoped they would be a little more fluffy, but it might be because I had to change how the shortening and water were combined.
Tweaks
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#1 - oil & water Do Not Mix! #2 - do Not heat fat or oil in your microwave. #3 - bread machines normally don't let you turn them on with the lid open. It is a Safety Precaution. #4 - the paddle in the bread machine will mix everything for you. Put the setting on 'dough' and let the Bread Machine do its job. I followed the instructions for the bread machine - 1 C of hot water (1 min in the microwave). I use extra light olive oil in my pizza crust. Also, I don't eat eggs, so almost 1/3 C of oil on top of the water. I put in 1 tsp of Mexican vanilla and it could have used more. Then the dry ingredients: 1/4 C of natural sugar, a bit of salt, and a heaping T of soy flour that is my egg substitute (along with that extra bit of oil in the beginning. 3 C of unbleached bread flour to cover the liquid so no liquid is coming through (I had put the bread machine on a time delay). 2 tsp of bread machine yeast on top of the flour (it might have taken a little more). Close the lid, plug it in, set it to Dough Cycle, and time delay (if you want). I pulled out a bit of dough at a time, flattened it into a circle, and cut it into 4 pieces. My air fryer browns better if whatever goes into it (not okra to be fried) has a little oil in it. So I dredged the pieces of dough in some extra light olive oil. I set the air fryer at 360 degrees for 3 min, turned the bread over after the 3 minutes, and cooked them 3 min more. They were still lighter than pizza dough or pretzels, but did not have the airholes that the beignets from Cafe du Monde has. And you can still dust them with powdered sugar. -
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