Local Food and Drinks

Since I mentioned Oliebollen (which traditionally are eaten on new year in The Netherlands) in an other topic I was like hey I can share a recipe here. :slight_smile: I simply love them specially when they are freshly made or from a special pastry stand. Supermarkets sell them too when new year is coming but in all those years I haven’t found any which taste good. (Maybe I’m picky?). You can buy them all year round at mobile pasty stands.

Ingredients (for about 20 oliebollen):
1kg bloem (flour, can be wheat flour, all purpose flour)
1 liter lauwe melk ( lukewarm milk)
80 gram gist (yeast)
80 gram zachte boter (soft butter)
50 gram witte basterdsuiker (white caster sugar but I guess normal sugar will work fine too)
3 eieren (eggs)
Citroensap (bit of lemon juice)
zout (bit of salt)
Zonnebloemolie voor het frituren (Sunflower oil to deep fry but rice oil is ok too, no olive oil, makes them taste bad.)

Instructions:

  • Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm milk.
  • Do the flour in a large bowl, add the eggs, butter sugar and slowly add the milk, mix well till you have a nice smooth dough. At some lemon juice and then a bit of salt.
  • Let it rest to rise for 30 minutes or a bit more at a warm spot.

To deepfry make sure your oil is about 175 degrees and use a wet soup ladle or icecream scoup to add the balls to the oil. Deepfry them for about 5 minutes. Don’t add to many at once they need some room.

Sprinkle them with iced sugar to serve. And of course you can also add bits of banana, apple, raisins to the dough or maybe some cinnamon.

For the last few years we are lazy and use a special olliebollen mix so we only have to add a few things :stuck_out_tongue:

Ohh and a little extra:
Oliebol = only one
Oliebollen = when there is more then one oliebol.

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