Plantain- Vegan Doughnut Recipe.

Compliments of the seasons to everyone; I hope we are all enjoying the holiday the best way we can. Today, I decided to make snacks for breakfast, and there were different ideas coming up in my head.

I concluded on making a doughnut, but not your regular doughnut recipe. This is more nutritious, healthy, tasty, and very easy to prepare.

Let's call this recipe a plantain doughnut since plantain will be twisted in the regular doughnut recipe. I have tried different snacks with plantains, but this is my first time trying it with a doughnut, and I wasn't disappointed with the outcome.

I am a huge fan of plantains, and it makes me happy when I can try new recipes with it. The natural sweetness of plantain is a blessing to any food, and I bet you are going to lose this as well.

Ingredients

3 small plantains
350 g of flour
4 tablespoons of sugar
½ tablespoon of yeast
500 ml groundnut oil
¼ tablespoon of salt

Procedure.

I started by removing the back of the plantain.

I cut the plantain into small pieces and turn them into a small mortar.

I pounded the plantain for some minutes until it was partially smooth.

I turned the pounded plantain into a container and prepared to make the dough.

I poured some flour on the pounded plantain in the bowl.

I added 4 tablespoons of sugar.
I added ½ tablespoon of yeast.

I added ¼ tablespoon of salt and started mixing all these ingredients together.

After mixing thoroughly, I added some flour, 4 teaspoons of groundnut and a few drops of water.

I switched from mixing to kneading until the mixture became a smooth dough.

I oiled another container and placed the dough gently in it. The oil is to prevent the dough from sticking to the container.

The dough needs to rise, so I kept it aside for some time, and if you look at the image below, you will notice the difference in the size.

I removed the dough and kneaded it again, which would automatically reduce the size again.

I cut the dough into smaller sizes and molded the pieces into a ball shape.

I made a hole in the dough and gently placed it on a tray.

I kept the dough aside after making a hole in everything because they need to rise again but not as much as the first time.

Now that the dough has increased in size again, it's time to fry.

I heated my deep frying pan first and turned the groundnut oil into the pan.

I allowed it to get hot, but it must not be too hot too prevent burning the doughnuts.
When the groundnut oil was hot enough to do the frying, I started placing the dough inside the pan.

It's a small frying pan, so I won't be frying much at a time. You must not overfill your frying pan at once if you want your doughnuts to come out in good state.