Easy Jelly Doughnuts
Ingredients
3 cups of unbleached flour (sifted)
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tbs. sugar
2 eggs
2 cups low fat sour cream
Canola oil for frying
Jelly of your choice
Powdered sugar
Directions
In a bowl add the flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs and sour cream. Mix until well blended. Heat the oil, when very hot add 1 tbs. of the mixture to the oil. Fry until doughnut puff and become light brown, then flip over and cook the other side. Proceed until all doughnuts are cooked. Drain doughnuts on a paper towel. Poke a small hole into each doughnut and fill with jelly of your choice. Sprinkle the doughnuts with powdered sugar and serve immediately.
Notes and/or Tips
A traditional recipe for Hanukkah, but enjoyable year-round. This recipe will make 25 doughnuts. To fill the jelly into the doughnut, you can use a syringe, or you can poke a hole with a skewer (do it slowly) and carefully fill the doughnuts.
