Lokoumathes (Cyprus Doughnuts with Honey Syrup)

Ingredients for dough:

Ingredients for syrup:

Cyprus Doughnuts with Honey Syrup

NOTE:

Method:

Place the flour in a large bowl and mix with salt.
Dissolve the yeast in a cup of warm water.
Make a well in the middle of the flour and pour in the dissolved yeast.
Mix well with your hands or a wooden spoon.
Add enough warm water until your dough is smooth, not too liquidly or too stiff.
Cover your dough with a woollen cloth or a blanket and leave in a warm place for about 2-3 hours to rise.
Your dough will rise to about double the original size.
By the time your dough rises you can prepare the syrup.
In a large sauce pan add the water, sugar, honey and cinnamon stick and boil on low heat for about 10 minutes.
Stir the syrup to dissolve the sugar and mix the honey.
Remove from the heat and let it cool down.
Add the rose water in the syrup and stir to mix.
In a casserole or a deep frying pan heat up enough corn oil for deep frying the Lokoumathes.
With a wet left palm take some of the dough, close slightly so that a small ball of dough comes out between your thump and your index finger.
With a wet teaspoon cut the small ball of dough and put it in the hot oil.
For every ball of dough you cut wet your spoon so the dough doesn’t stick on it.
Fry some Lokoumathes at a time.
While frying separate them with a big spoon.
Fry the Lokoumathes until golden brown.
Strain the cooked ones to get the excess oil and while they are hot, deep them into the cold syrup and with a spoon stir so the syrup get all over them.
Place in a platter, sprinkle some cinnamon powder and serve hot.

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