Hvorost

Nation: Ireland

Type: Dessert

Ingredients:

• 3 egg yolks
• 1 cup Kefir (or 2 tbs sour cream + 1 cup milk)
• 2 tbs sugar
• 0,25 tsp salt
• 3 cups flour
• Oil for deep frying (vegetable or canola)
• Powered sugar

Combine the eggs, kefir (sour milk), sugar, salt and 2,5 cups flour. Mix and fold the dough, adding more flour as needed, until it no longer sticks to your hands.

Quarter the dough, and roll out each piece on a well floured surface until it’s an eighth of an each thick. Slice the dough using a pizza cutter or a knife into approximately 1 inch wide strips, and cut a small slit in the middle of each strip.

Take one of the hands of each strip and pull through the slit, partly inverting the strips. This is for decorative purposes: feel free to form them into any other creative shapes.

Heat sufficient amount of oil in a pan to submerge the pastries (3 inches). We had the temperature at around 320°F. Drop only a few strips of hvorost at a time , they will expand in the oil. Cook for a few minutes, making sure they are evenly cooked on each side.

When they are golden brown, carefully remove from oil and stack on a lare plate.

The pastries themselves aren’t that sweet, therefore a lot of the sweetness will come from how you top them.

Powder the hvorost with icing sugar and serve. Alternatively use honey or any kind of syrup.

Enjoy!