Doughnuts

Here is a novel use of refrigerated biscuits. We are going to turn them into Chinese banquet doughnuts by frying them and dusting with sifted sugar. A little cinnamon could be added to the dusting if so desired.

Ingredients

• Refrigerated Biscuits
• ¼ Cup of Sugar
• 1 Teaspoon of Cinnamon
• Oil (for deep frying)

Biscuit

Rather than baking our refrigerator biscuits in the normal way (see Fig.2) we are going to turn them into Chinese banquet doughnuts.

Method

1. Preheat oil to 350 degrees F. Use a medium deep saucepan if you don’t have a fryer to hand.
2. Sift sugar and put it into a zip lock plastic bag. If you are going to add cinnamon, do so now and then resift the sugar/cinnamon mix. Return the now combined cinnamon sugar mix to the zip lock bag and set to one side ready for later use.
3. Now fry the refrigerator biscuits 2 at a time. Turn once if necessary and cook until they have turned a lovely golden brown on both sides (all over).
4. Once cooked transfer your biscuit doughnuts to paper towels to drain. Once drained, transfer the biscuit doughnuts onto a rack to cool down.
5. Continue cooking (frying) as many biscuits as required
6. Once the biscuit doughnuts have cooled down somewhat put them one at a time into your sugar, sugar/cinnamon mix loaded zip lock bag and seal the bag before giving them a bit of a shake. Take your now sugar coated biscuit doughnut out of the zip lock bag and place onto a serving plate ready to serve.

Serving

Biscuit doughnuts can be served as is with just a coating of sifted sugar or sifted sugar/cinnamon mix.

You might also consider serving them with a teaspoon of jam (seedless raspberry conserve works really well).

They can also be served with hot apricot sauce and ice cream as a really special Chinese dessert.

However you go do enjoy!