Buckwheat Spoon Doughnuts use buckwheat flour instead of wheat flour. Spoon doughnuts recipe variations are a popular dessert across other Balkan countries as well. Buckwheat flour is gluten-free, healthy, and taste good, although is not so popular.

Buckwheat spoon doughnuts
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Buckwheat spoon doughnuts

Buckwheat flour is very healthy, gluten-free and delicious too.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Slovenia
Keyword: buckwheat flour, greek yogurt

Ingredients

  • 180 ml yogurt
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tbsp rum
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 60 g sugar
  • 200 g wheat or buckwheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • sugar powder or honey
  • vegetable oil

Instructions

  • Make thick liquid dough by mixing all the wet ingredients and then add flour with baking powder. 
  • Make small dumplings with a spoon directly into hot oil.  
  • Preheat a frying pan with oil and fry them untill golden brown.

Inspiration and adaptation: homemadeslovenianfood.blogspot.com, wikipedia.org

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