Ingredients
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- Lángos:
- 500 g bread flour (strongly preferred) or all-purpose
- 250 g potato peeled, cooked and finely mashed
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 200 ml milk
- 15 g fresh yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- sunflower oil for frying
- garlic wash, sour cream, grated cheese for serving
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- Garlic wash:
- 3–4 garlic cloves crushed
- 100 ml water
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 head garlic
- Kosher salt
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- 16 oz. sour cream
- 16 oz. grated cheese (Trappista or Edam)
Instructions
- Sprinkle the sugar into lukewarm milk, stir then crumble in the yeast. Let it rest for 5-10 minutes till the yeast starts to work in the sugary milk. It is very important that the milk is not too warm, it could ruin the yeast.
- Combine the flour, salt, finely mashed potato, yeast in a bowl and knead it thoroughly till well combined springy, takes about 10 minutes.
- Cover with a clean kitchen towel and let it rest at a warm (not hot) place for 45 minutes, the dough should rise and double or triple in size.
- Meanwhile prepare the garlic wash to allow time for its flavors to infuse. Simply combine the crushed garlic, water and a little oil in a glass and set aside.
- Now on a floured board, roll the dough out to a depth of 1cm (0.5 inch).
- Stamp out round circles using a round 9cm (3.5 inch) cutter, cover with the kitchen towel and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- In a big frying pan heat the oil, fry the lángos pieces, stretch the dough circles by hand as much as possible without tearing and carefully immerse into the hot oil.
- Fry both sides of the lángos on medium heat turning once.
- Remove from the oil and place it onto a plate lined with paper towels.
- Give the langos a garlic wash, sprinkle with kosher salt, cover with sour cream and more crushed garlic and lastly top with the grated cheese.
- Eat warm as fresh as possible.
- Category: Recipes
Nutrition
- Calories: 1988.68 kcal
- Sugar: 8.26 g
- Sodium: 1382.44 mg
- Fat: 148.58 g
- Saturated Fat: 47.31 g
- Trans Fat: 1.34 g
- Carbohydrates: 116.43 g
- Fiber: 5.7 g
- Protein: 49.95 g
- Cholesterol: 179.79 mg
