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Bambalouni

Name: Bambalouni
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Tunisia
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 1 1/2 tsp Dry yeast; 2 tbsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt; 200ml Water; To taste Oil for frying; To taste Granulated sugar

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Yeasted dough shaped into rings, fried, and sugared — the hot doughnut of a Tunisian seaside town.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bambalouni is a fried doughnut known as the specialty of Sidi Bou Said, the blue-and-white town on the Mediterranean. The soft dough is stretched into a ring by hand, fried, coated generously with sugar, and handed over wrapped in paper. It's enjoyed at cafés with mint tea or coffee for breakfast or a snack.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a stall on a sloping street in Sidi Bou Said, fresh bambalouni are coated in sugar as tourists and locals alike eat them hot while gazing at the sea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bread flour 300g
Dry yeast 1 1/2 tsp
Sugar 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 200ml
Oil for frying To taste
Granulated sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and sugar in lukewarm water.
Add the bread flour and salt and knead by slapping for 10 minutes into a soft dough.
Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1.5 hours until more than doubled.
With oiled hands, pinch off pieces a bit larger than a ping-pong ball, poke a hole in the center, and stretch into rings.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden on both sides.
Drain and coat with granulated sugar while hot.

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