Glutenless Girl: Doughnuts!

So Jacy asked me to Guest Blog this week after we spent the day together cooking and having fun. As we stuffed our face with sweet potato and garlic fries Jacy decided we should make Doughnuts! Being someone who really enjoys cooking anything I was all for this idea. So we went to my house and made a list of everything we needed for these delicious treats. Once we finished the shopping, (I had no gluten free anything) we made the dough. We noticed that we forgot the GF dough enhancer that was added in and the dough was still great. We used half of the recipe and got a good 30 doughnut holes plus enough leftover dough for a medium size loaf of bread another day. Jacy was much better at making the holes than I mine looked a lot more like a splatter than a ball while Jacy’s were perfect!

After being asked for the recipe many times I thought It was time I shared. We got the recipe from Healthy Artisan bread in Five Minutes a Day and we got the modifications here.

Here is the exact recipe we used:

Note: This recipe is halved from the original

Yields: About 2 lbs of dough

Ingredients:

3 cups Gluten Free Flour mix

¼ cup Sorghum flour

8 Tbs oil (we used olive, recipe calls for anything from coconut to a neutral flavored one)

1 1/3 cups lukewarm water

1 Tbs Yeast

½ Tbs Kosher Salt

1 Tbs Xanthan Gum

2 large eggs, whisked together

1 Tbs Honey

Directions:

There are more detailed directions on the website but here is the easy version.

1. Mix all the dry ingredients

2. Mix all the wet ingredients BUT the eggs

3. Mix the whisked eggs into the dry ingredients

4. In Thirds start to slowly mix in the wet ingredients stirring constantly while pouring it in. (We ended up mixing with our hands after the spoon was no longer working)

5. Stir until smooth

6. Cover the bowl loosely with a lid or aluminum foil

7. Let rise for about two hours. At this point you can put the dough in the refrigerator for up to seven days and either make bread or doughnuts.

8. We let our dough chill in the refrigerator for about 30 mins

Making the Doughnuts

9. Heat oil (any neutral flavored oil, enough to have doughnuts totally submerged in it) in a sauce pan until it is 350-400 degrees (deep fry stage on most thermometers)