Mini ricotta doughnuts
Quick and simple Italian mini ricotta doughnuts with orange flavor
If you dream of quick and simple Italian mini ricotta doughnuts, this recipe is exactly for you. Delicate inside, slightly crispy outside, and subtly orange-scented – these Italian ricotta doughnuts taste like they’re straight from a small cafe somewhere in sunny Italy. Best of all, you’ll prepare them without kneading dough and without long waiting, so they’re perfect when you crave something sweet „right now”. These orange-flavored mini ricotta doughnuts are great for dessert, with afternoon coffee, or as a quick homemade bake for a gathering with loved ones. If you like easy doughnut recipes that always turn out well and make an impression, you must try this version. I guarantee – one doughnut is definitely not enough!
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Quick ricotta doughnuts step-by-step recipe
If you like quick and simple yeast-free doughnut recipes, then you must try this recipe for such Italian sweets for Fat Thursday and beyond!
Ricotta mini donuts recipe with video
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Ingredients for mini ricotta donuts
- 130 g all-purpose flour (a little less than a cup)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 łyżeczki baking powder
- orange zest
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 250 g ricotta cheese
- 2 eggs (size L)
- oil (for deep-frying)
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How to make mini ricotta donuts step-by-step
Step 1 – preparation
- Zest one orange and squeeze the juice from one half.
- Pour the oil into a pot and heat it to about 180°C.oil
Step 2 – preparing the dough for mini doughnuts
- Mix together ricotta, eggs, orange zest, and juice.orange zest, 1 tablespoon orange juice, 250 g ricotta cheese, 2 eggs
- Add flour, baking powder, and sugar.130 g all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 łyżeczki baking powder
- Mix into a rather thick batter.
Step 3 – frying mini doughnuts
- Spoon heaped portions of the batter into the hot oil (use a second spoon to help release the batter).
- Fry for about 1-2 minutes and then turn the doughnuts to the other side.
- Fry on the other side for about a minute – you can check with a toothpick if the dough is cooked through in the middle.
- Remove the doughnuts onto a paper towel to drain excess fat.
- Coat or sprinkle the doughnuts with sugar.
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Why make mini ricotta doughnuts?
Holidays are ongoing, plus we have carnival, and Fat Thursday will be soon. That’s why today I have for you a recipe for very quick and simple Italian ricotta cheese doughnuts. I highly recommend this recipe, because the doughnuts are express to prepare – they are made with baking powder, not yeast. So preparing the doughnut dough will take you literally 5 minutes! What’s more, the doughnuts are soft, moist, and nicely orange-flavored. They will surely appeal to both children and adults. My advice? Make a double batch right away!
And I found the recipe for these incredibly quick ricotta doughnuts on the blog of Emily (Inside my Rustic Kitchen).
Ingredients needed for Italian ricotta doughnuts
To make such homemade mini orange doughnuts at home, you will only need a few basic ingredients. Below is a shortened list of products I used and possible substitutes.
- ricotta – is a light Italian cheese that you can easily find in any large store, as well as in discount stores like Lidl or Biedronka; alternatively, you can replace it with a lighter cheesecake quark/curd cheese – e.g., President quark, or Pilos cheesecake quark/curd cheese, or one from Biedronka.
- orange – if you don’t have an orange for juice and zest, you can add regular orange juice, or orange essence/oil.
- all-purpose flour – use any flour – your favourite.
- oil – for frying you will need fat; I used rapeseed oil, but you can also melt lard – it’s best to use about 0.5-1 liter of fat, depending on the size of the pot used.
Tips for ricotta doughnuts to always turn out well
For the doughnuts not to absorb too much oil during frying, it is important that the fat is well heated. If you don’t have a special thermometer to measure the temperature, then before adding portions of dough for frying, first add a small amount of dough and see how it fries. If nothing much happens, wait a little longer. If the dough starts frying immediately, you can add the doughnuts.
Also, after frying, be sure to place them on a paper towel, which will absorb some of the oil and make the doughnuts less greasy.
How to serve Italian mini ricotta doughnuts?
I recommend immediately coating the drained orange mini doughnuts in sugar – it can be regular sugar or powdered sugar. The dough itself had very little sugar (so the doughnuts wouldn’t burn during frying), so they are not too sweet on their own.
You can also drizzle the mini ricotta doughnuts with orange glaze to further emphasize their orange flavor.
How to make orange glaze for ricotta doughnuts?
To make orange glaze for doughnuts, prepare about 100 g of powdered sugar (2/3 cup) in a bowl and add orange juice to it in portions – one tablespoon at a time. Usually two tablespoons of juice are enough to get a slightly runny glaze. Then drizzle it over the mini doughnuts and they’re ready!
How many calories do mini ricotta doughnuts have?
In the table below the recipe, I provided the calorie count for 100 g of doughnuts (taking into account that they will absorb some oil during frying). The recipe yielded 20 mini doughnuts, and in that case, one mini orange doughnut had approximately 84 kcal (carbohydrates – 7 g, protein – 2.5 g, fats – 5 g).
I hope you will also find this simple recipe for quick ricotta cheese doughnuts useful and fry them during Carnival. Be sure to leave a comment below the recipe and share your impressions. Also, try my other recipes for delicious homemade doughnuts perfect for Fat Thursday and beyond.
Recommended doughnut recipes
Also try my other recipes for doughnuts, mini doughnuts, and oponki (ring-shaped doughnuts). There is a huge selection on the blog – with various flavors and different additions. Here I recommend, among others, three such recipes:
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