Recipe: Delicious Okinawa Doughnuts

Okinawa Doughnuts. In a large bowl, beat eggs, milk, and vanilla. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. It's some what like a heavy cake doughnut.

They squeeze the dough out of their fists into perfect balls but I use an ice-cream scoop (small) to make the balls. 'Okinawa Doughnuts' are deep fried sweet buns that are made in Japan's southern island of Okinawa. It is called 'Sata Andagi' in Okinawan language. Traditional 'Andagi', that means 'deep-fried', is made with Flour, Sugar and Eggs. You can have Okinawa Doughnuts using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Okinawa Doughnuts

1. Prepare 2 of Eggs.
2. Prepare 1/3 cup of Caster Sugar OR Dark Brown Sugar.
3. You need 1 pinch of Salt.
4. Prepare 10 g of Butter *melted.
5. It's 1 of & 1/4 cups Self-Raising Flour *OR Plain Flour with 1 teaspoon Baking Powder.
6. You need of Oil for frying.

Commonly Lard is also mixed into the dough, but I use Butter. In a large bowl, beat eggs, milk, and vanilla. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Sata Andagi is a deep fried doughnut made from eggs, sugar and flour, and an Okinawa speciality.

Okinawa Doughnuts step by step

1. Combine Eggs and Sugar in a mixing bowl. Add Salt and melted Butter, and mix well. Add Self-Raising Flour and mix to form soft dough. Allow to rest while you are preparing Oil for frying. *Note: 1 cup is 250ml.
2. Heat Oil about depth of 5cm in a large saucepan and heat to 150 to 160°C, which is relatively low temperature..
3. As the dough is very sticky, wet your hands with Oil and form 2-3cm balls and carefully drop them into the oil. Slowly deep-fry doughnuts until puffed and cracked, and nicely browned all over. It takes about 6 minutes..
4. *Note: Do not cook too many at once as the relatively low temperature of the oil will drop further, and the doughnuts get soggy or might collapse..
5. Transfer the doughnuts to a tray lined with paper towel. Repeat with the remaining dough. Keep the temperature of the oil about 150 to 160°C..

Okinawan language is a little different from standard Japanese but basically Sata Andagi means deep fried sugar doughnuts. It's appearance look like smile or flower when the dough deep fried slowly in low temperature oil. Mix dry ingredients and wet ingredients in separate bowls. Make a well in the dry. Remove the donuts and place them onto a tray covered with a paper towel.