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Vaida Makes Extra-Crispy Fritters with Just Three Ingredients

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

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  • Vaida Vinslovienė shared a quick fritter recipe based on flour, eggs and salt, with vodka included in the preparation.
  • The dough rests for 30 minutes, is rolled very thin, cut into pieces and fried in hot oil.
  • The finished fritters can be dusted with powdered sugar or coated with honey and sugar syrup, raisins and poppy seeds to make “Skruzdėlynas.”

Vaida Vinslovienė, described as a true recipe encyclopedia, has shared a simplified version of žagarėliai that requires only three main ingredients. She says the result is especially crisp.

The dough uses 400 grams of flour, four eggs, half a teaspoon of salt and two tablespoons of vodka. After kneading, it should rest for 30 minutes. The dough is then rolled as thinly as possible and cut into strips or diamonds before being fried in hot oil.

These fritters turn out very crispy. You can sprinkle them with powdered sugar after frying, but I poured over boiled sugar and honey syrup, then added raisins and poppy seeds, and there it was, I had made Skruzdėlynas.

· Vaida VinslovienėVaida described how she turned the simplified fritters into Skruzdėlynas.

The fritters can be finished with powdered sugar. Vaida instead poured over a boiled sugar and honey syrup, then added raisins and poppy seeds to make “Skruzdėlynas,” a Lithuanian dessert. She said the result was excellent and no worse than the traditional version.

The recipe notes that the vodka helps prevent the dough from absorbing too much oil. It evaporates during frying and does not remain noticeable in the finished fritters.

It turned out great and was not the slightest bit worse than the real Skruzdėlynas.

· Vaida VinslovienėShe assessed the finished dessert.
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