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Marshallese Doughnuts

Name: Marshallese Doughnuts
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Marshall Islands
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 4 tbsp Sugar; 200ml Coconut milk; A pinch Salt; To taste Oil for frying; To taste Granulated sugar

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Balls of flour dough fried round — a morning treat in the Marshall Islands.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

In the Marshall Islands, humble fried flour doughnuts are loved for breakfast and snacks, and homemade ones are sold at small shops. Coconut milk sometimes goes into the dough, and they're eaten with sweet tea or coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a small shop in Majuro in the morning, round fried doughnuts in plastic bags are lined up as children buy them on the way to school.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 300g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Sugar 4 tbsp
Coconut milk 200ml
Salt A pinch
Oil for frying To taste
Granulated sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Warm the coconut milk to body temperature.
Mix the flour, yeast, sugar, and salt, add the coconut milk, and knead.
Let rise 1 hour.
Tear the dough into bite-size pieces, roll into balls, and fry in 170°C oil, turning.
Coat in sugar while hot.

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