Kyrgyzstan · bread · English edition
Boorsok
Kyrgyz fried dough diamonds, hollow inside, for tea and the dastarkhan.
10 servings · 120 minutes (estimated)
Ingredients
Quantities for 10 servings.
- 700 g Flour
- 350 ml Warm milk
- 10 g Dry yeast
- 40 g Sugar
- 1 piece Egg
- 60 g Butter
- 900 ml Oil for frying
- 1 tbsp Salt
Method
- Dissolve the yeast with the sugar in the warm milk and leave it fifteen minutes, until it foams.
- Knead a soft dough from the flour, sponge, egg, melted butter and salt.
- Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour, until doubled.
- Knock the dough back and roll it out to exactly a centimetre thick.
- Cut it into four-centimetre diamonds and let them rest twenty minutes.
- Heat the oil to 180 °C and lower the diamonds in in small batches.
- Fry them a minute and a half a side, turning with a slotted spoon, to golden puffs.
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