Crispy and bubbly non-greasy Carnival fritters, perfect recipe. Fritters are the Carnival sweets par excellence, prepared all over Italy from North to South, in every region they have a different name, bugie, frappe, crostole, but they remain the same identical goodness, fried sweets sprinkled with powdered sugar, delicious even with chocolate or rolled thicker and filled with cream. Today we will see how to prepare fritters, the classic recipe wants them fried, but if you really can’t eat them that way you can also bake them, they will just be a little crunchier. Carnival is still a bit far off, but the fritters are so good that I’ve already made them twice in a week and this recipe really doesn’t change unless I want to prepare them with different ingredients depending on what I have available at home, for example if I have yogurt I make yogurt fritters, without eggs, or smart fritters with cream if I have whipping cream, so with just 2 ingredients I manage to prepare something delicious. With this recipe, perfect fritters come out, they are nice and crispy, bubbly, they melt in your mouth, and are not greasy at all, quite the opposite. Don’t try to make half a batch, I did the first time, and I immediately ran out, so after 2 days I made them again, and we ate half with a friend of mine while drinking a cup of tea, fritters are like that, one leads to another. Also try all the Carnival sweet fritters recipes.
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Rest time: 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 30 Minutes
- Portions: 4 people
- Cooking methods: Frying
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Carnival fritters ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour or mixed with 0
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 1 1/2 tbsp milk
- 2 tbsp liquor
- 2 tbsp butter
- zest of 1 lemon or vanilla
- sunflower seed oil for frying
- vanilla powdered sugar
Tools to prepare Carnival fritters
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Pasta machine
- 1 Pastry wheel
- 1 Pan
- 1 Paper towels
Steps to prepare Carnival fritters
In a bowl, put all the ingredients. The flour with the sugar, the milk, the 2 eggs, the melted butter, the grated lemon peel, and the liquor, but any sweet white wine will do. Knead with your hands until you obtain a homogeneous dough ball. You can also knead everything with a stand mixer.
Work the dough better on a surface to make it more elastic and homogeneous. Cover and let it rest for half an hour.
After resting, roll out the dough into a thin sheet, you can do it on a floured surface with a rolling pin or with a pasta machine, to get a thin sheet. Divide the dough into 5 parts, and roll out one piece at a time. Start from the level with the widest rollers, and repeat this first step several times, folding the dough to get a smooth sheet. Flour from time to time, and when the sheet is perfect, tighten the rollers one level, from 0 to 1, and pass the sheet again, continue this way up to level 5, the penultimate of the 6-level thickness machine. Place the sheets on a floured surface.
Once all sheets are rolled, cut the fritters with a wheel, smooth or fluted. Make rectangles with cuts in the center.
Fry in hot oil above 340°F, but be careful not to let the temperature rise too much. As soon as you put them in the hot oil they will puff up, let them brown on both sides and dry them on paper towels.
Once cooled, arrange them on a tray and sprinkle them all with vanilla powdered sugar as you go.
If you want, you can add chocolate, white or dark, just melt it in a bain-marie or microwave for a few seconds, and distribute it over the fritters with a teaspoon, a parchment paper cone, or a pastry pen.
You can also bake the Carnival fritters, the bubbles will form the same way, just place them on the oven tray covered with parchment paper, bake them in a preheated oven at 350°F in a static oven, 330°F in a fan oven, for about 10-12 minutes, until golden. I noticed that with baking the taste of the liquor is more intense, even if the dough is the same, so the choice is yours, fried or baked.
If you don’t have a stand mixer or pasta machine and want to buy one, I recommend the Imperia pasta machine, very practical and long-lasting. If you want to buy a stand mixer as well, this Ferrari stand mixer also has the pasta machine.
