Eggless Jam Doughnuts

I love doughnuts and whenever I get a chance, I make them at home.  Be it jam doughnuts or chocolate glazed doughnuts I simply love them.  Making doughnuts at home is fun.  I enjoy making dough and getting it doubled up in just 1-2 hours.  Its a kind of joy seeing the dough raising up :D

Today I am sharing my recipe of Jam Doughnuts.  Tasty, melt in mouth and super soft is all I can say about these doughnuts.  You got to try them to understand my words.. Try these doughnuts once and I can bet you would make them again and again, they taste that good.  Above all, anybody can enjoy these doughnuts as they are completely eggless :)

Now lets come to the recipe. Here I used strawberry jam for filling but you can use any jam of your choice, even marmalade would work.   As for filling the jam inside the fried doughnuts, I used an icing bag but instead of it you can use a butter paper cone or any plastic sauce squeeze bottle.  For dusting the fried doughnuts you can use icing sugar or mixture of icing sugar and desiccated coconut or icing sugar and chocolate powder/coco powder mixture. Options are endless.

Now lets start making these wonderful jam doughnuts.  Happy Cooking :)

Ingredients:

All purpose flour	1 cup
Active dry yeast	½ tsp
Unsalted butter	2 tbsp
Salt	1/8 tsp
Milk (lukewarm)	¼ cup
Sugar	3 tbsp
Jam/Marmalade (for filling)	As required
Icing sugar (for dusting the doughnuts)	As required
Oil	For frying

Method:

• In a bowl, take all purpose flour.  Add dry active yeast and sugar and salt.  Mix well.  Add butter and rub it well with the flour.  Add lukewarm milk to the flour little by little to make a soft dough.  Knead it well for about 5 minutes.  Shift the dough to another bowl and cover it with cling film.  Keep it at a warm place for 2-3 hours for raising. It would get double in size in 2-3 hours.
• Once raised, knead the dough once again and make small balls with it.  Arrange the prepared ball in a greased tray and again leave it for 1 hour for raising. Do not forget to cover the tray with a damp cloth.  The balls would double up in the size after one hour.  
• Meanwhile, Keep the icing sugar ready in a large plate.  Fill the jam in the icing bag and set aside.
• Once the dough balls puffed up, heat oil in a skillet and on medium heat, fry them until golden brown.  Keep stirring to get even coloring.  Do not increase the heat else the doughnuts would remain uncooked from inside. 
• In the same manner, fry all the doughnuts.  Take out on a tissue paper and roll them in icing sugar.  
• Now take the icing bag filled with jam.  Make a small hole in all the doughnuts.  Insert the nozzle in the hole and fill the jam.  Do not over stuff,  Fill the remaining doughnuts likewise.
• Serve warm and enjoy.

Notes:

1. Icing sugar can be substituted with powdered sugar.
2. If using salted butter, skip the salt.
3. Do not over ferment the dough or it would get sour.  Keep it not more than 2-3 hours for raising. 
4. If you want to store the dough, shift it to an airtight container and store in the deep freezer.  Thaw well before use.
5. Fry the doughnuts on medium heat.
6. Coat the hot doughnuts in the icing sugar.