World Flavors Cookbook

Kleinur (Icelandic Doughnuts)

Name: Kleinur (Icelandic Doughnuts)
Cook time: 20 min
Cuisine: Iceland
Ingredients: flour, sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, cardamom, milk, oil for frying

Traditional diamond-shaped fried doughnuts flavored with cardamom, a staple of Icelandic coffee time.

Cuisine: Iceland

Ingredients

flour, sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, cardamom, milk, oil for frying

Instructions

Mix the dough with plenty of cardamom. Roll thin and cut into diamond shapes with a hole in the middle. Twist one end through the hole. Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Dust with sugar if desired.