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Fritule

Name: Fritule
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Croatia
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 150ml Milk; 1 Egg; 2 tbsp Sugar; 40g Raisins; from 1 Lemon zest; A pinch Salt; To taste Oil for frying; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Little fried doughnuts scented with lemon zest and rum, dusted with powdered sugar — a Croatian Christmas sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fritule are bite-sized fried doughnuts made in Dalmatia and Istria, essential at Christmas and Carnival. Batter scented with raisins, lemon or orange zest, and rum is dropped from a spoon into hot oil and fried, then rolled generously in powdered sugar. They're also popular at Zagreb's Christmas market.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Zagreb's Christmas market, drawn by the sweet smell from a stall, people get paper cups of fritule dusted with powdered sugar.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 250g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Milk 150ml
Egg 1
Sugar 2 tbsp
Raisins 40g
Lemon zest from 1
Salt A pinch
Oil for frying To taste
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and sugar in warm milk.
Add the flour, eggs, lemon zest, salt, and raisins to make a loose batter.
Cover with plastic wrap and let rise 1 hour.
Using two spoons, drop small rounds into 170°C oil.
Fry for 3–4 minutes, turning, until golden.
Drain and roll generously in powdered sugar.

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