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They are an old pastry that. Here is how you cook it. As usual, here is a new recipe : "les bugnes". You can have Les Bugnes (French Donuts) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Les Bugnes (French Donuts)

1. Prepare 300 g of bread flour.
2. It's 1 of egg.
3. It's 30 g of powdered sugar + 2tbs for coating.
4. Prepare 80 g of soft unsalted butter.
5. It's 2 g of salt.
6. Prepare 1 tbs of fresh orange zest.
7. You need 1 tbs of rum.
8. You need 6 g of instant dry yeast.
9. Prepare 30 ml of fresh milk.
10. It's 2 cups of Canola oil for frying.

Bugnes is a typically french recipe. They are the equivalent of french doughnuts. It's a tradition here in France, to eat bugnes for the Mardis gras. To have a delicious snack time, you will need to add icing sugar 🙂 Find the instructions down below to learn how to make those fabulous bugnes !

Les Bugnes (French Donuts) instructions

1. Place all ingredients in bowl of standing mixer except butter and knead until it come together. Add soft butter little by little and knead until smooth and elastic. Cover and let it rise double in size in room temperature. (120 minutes in 27oC)..
2. Sprinkle flour on to working surface and roll out the dough with a rolling pin to obtain a large rectangle 3mm thick..
3. Cut into rectangles about 1 inch wide by 4 inches long with a crinkle-edged wheel or with a knife. Leave as is, or cut a 2-inch slit down the center of each rectangle to make a hole that will spread open as it cooks. Skip one of the ends of the rectangle through the slit and pull it back, to give a kind of spiral or corkscrew effect to the strips of dough..
4. Put the bugnes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat and let stand for 1 hour..
5. In a shallow skillet, heat 3 cups of oil to 170oC. Put 4 or 5 strips of dough into the hot oil and cook for about 1 minute on one side, then turn with tongs and continue cooking for another minute. Lift the bugnes from the oil and place on a wire rack while you repeat with the remaining dough..
6. Then sprinkle with powdered sugar on both sides. Served hot with tea or coffee..

Bugnes (French Donuts) recipe - These tasty French pastries are very donut-like in taste and texture and are a traditional pastry found in many bakeries in France. Flavoured with lemon zest, they are light and very delicate. You could also omit the lemon zest and use orange zest instead. In a bowl add flour, eggs, butter, lemon zest, sugar and salt. Add yeast to it and stir with a spoon until the mix is wet.