FIN Blog #8 Bake Finnish Munkki

Gestern habe ich mit meinen Each One Teach One Partnern selbst Munkki – also finnische Donuts – gebacken. Wir treffen uns zehn Mal im Semester um gegenseitig die andere Sprache zu lernen, ich lerne mit Paula Finnisch und sie mit Krystian (der auch dabei war) Polnisch. Zusammen können wir aber auch Deutsch reden.

Für die Munkkis braucht man/ For the munkkis you need:

2 packages of dried active yeast (15g)
½ cup water
1 ½ cups milk
50 g warm butter
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup marble syrup (or honey)
2 teaspoon cardamom (spices which makes the black points in munkki)
2 eggs
6 cups of flour (1 cup = 140g, 6 cups = 840g)
½ liter oil (depends on your pot or pan)
50g of sugar
1 egg for the glaze and sugar

How you do the dough:

put the ½ cup of water in a big bowl
pour the two packs of dried yeast over it and let absorb it for 5 minutes, mix
add 1,5 cups of milk
add 50g of fluid butter (warm up in pot or microwave) à easier to mix
add 1 tsp salt, ½ cup of marble syrup, 2 tsp cardamom, 2 eggs
add slowly 3 cups of flour (420g) and mix everything together
add the remaining 3 cups of flour (420g) slowly until the dough is smooth, elastic and a bit sticky
knead the dough with your fingers and hands and hit it on the table, so the yeast get active
let the dough rise in a warm place under a towel for 45 minutes
Finnish Munkki self-made!
roll out the dough 1,3cm high and stamp out cirlces with a glass or cup, stamp out the little circle in the middle with a shot glas
you can also cut a thin strip and roll it together that it looks like a donut, you can also form balls or munkkis without a whole
don’t make too big, because the yeast will still let the dough rise, maybe as big as your hand without fingers 😉

let the raw donuts rise under a towel for another 30 minutes

Frying the munkkis in the pot

Frying the donuts/ munkki:
- heat up ½ to ¾ liter oil in a big deep pan or pot for 5 minutes
- do 3 donuts in the oil in the same time and fry each side for 2 minutes
- take them out with ladle (big kitchen spoon with holes in it) and top them with egg by a brush on both sides, then toss them in sugar
- you can also make a glaze out of water and icing sugar in different colours
- munkkis are best serve warm and fresh