Papanași
Papanași, from above
Non vegEggRomania

Papanași

Fried cheese doughnuts with sour cream and jam, wearing a little hat. Romania's dessert flex.

40 minTime
18 gProtein each
mildSpice
Doughnuts with a hat2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayWith smântână and sour cherry jam.
The original
452kcalsame
18 gproteinsame
1 gfibresame
40minutessame

Papanași.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

6 servings
Quark (farmer's cheese, quark, or crumbled fresh chhena)400 g fresh cheese or chhena
Egg2
Sugar⅓ cup
Rava (semolina)3 tbsp semolina
Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1 cup
Baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda)½ tsp
Lemonzest
Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)½ tsp
Cooking oil (vegetable oil)absorbed; for frying
Sour creamto serve
Fruit jam (jam or preserves)sour cherry or blueberry jam

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Mix cheese, eggs, sugar, zest and vanilla, then semolina, flour and soda into a soft dough.
  2. 2Shape large rings and small balls with floured hands.
  3. 3Fry at 170 C until golden and cooked through.
  4. 4Stack a ball on each ring, top with sour cream and jam.
Serve it like this

Serve one ring with its hat on top, sour cream poured over and jam spooned on top.

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