Cottage cheese donuts from Hungary (Túrófánk)
Hungarian cottage cheese donuts are very easy to make, ideal for beginners. A quick dessert recipe, it takes only 15 minutes to prepare.
Hungarian cottage cheese is a fresh, soft curd cheese, similar to farmer’s cheese or quark, dry and bot liquidy at all. It is most often made with cow milk. If you use ricotta cheese, then add only 2 eggs. These delicious doughnuts are made without yeast, so there is no need for leavening – you can taste them in minutes!
Ingredients
- 250 grams (8.8 ounces / 1 cup) of dry cottage cheese (or farmer’s cheese or ricotta cheese)
- 3 eggs (if you use ricotta, then add just 2 eggs)
- 150 grams (1 cup) of plain flour
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- few drops of vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of grated lemon zest
- Vegetable oil for deep-frying (I used sunflower oil)
- Apricot jam
- Powdered sugar
Takes
Serves 4.
Instructions
- Place the cottage cheese in a bowl and crumble. Add 3 eggs, the flour, sugar, baking powder, vanilla extract and the lemon zest and stir to combine.
- Heat the oil to medium temperature, I used a smaller pan with about 3cm of oil, it was enough to give a good depth for the doughnuts.
- With the help of 2 teaspoons scoop and drop little balls into the hot oil and fry each side until golden brown, it takes about 4-5 minutes.
- Transfer the donuts to the paper towel and and continue to fry the rest of the dough until finished.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with apricot jam.
I usually make them with homemade farmers cheese, and they always delicious!
Mouth watering, must make some for my Hungarian daughter in law
How much flour?
Hello Taley,
You add 150 grams (5.3 ounces) of plain flour.
Kind regards,
Agnes
I want to make these and don’t have a scale can you help me out with the measuring of the ingredients please. I live in the USA. Thank you
Hello Roberta,
Please use 1 cup of cottage cheese and 1 cup of flour.
Agnes
These are the most amazing yummilicious doughnuts ever …my hubby says addictive and not shareable
Hello. The ingredients call for baking powder while the instructions state baking soda. Would you clarify, please?
Hello Denni, Thanks for your note, please use baking powder, I fixed the recipe.
Have a great day!
Aggie