How To Make Dutch Doughnuts Oliebollen

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They are a bit chewy, a little sweet, and deep-fried. All the things that we should not eat but that taste so good. Are you ready to learn how to make Dutch doughnut oliebollen recipe? Let’s get started.

How To Make Traditional Oliebollen

1. To make this recipe we start with the raisins and currants. Put the currants and raisins in water and leave overnight. Drain and pad dry with paper towels before use.
2. It is really important to use a new packet of yeast for this recipe. Combine the yeast, sugar, and 100 ml of lukewarm milk. You need to use a fresh package of yeast to ensure the dough will rise as needed so you get light and fluffy doughnuts.
3. Warm the milk slightly and put it aside. Add the yeast to the sugar and stir through. Then add a little bit of milk and stir. The yeast mixture should start to froth and bubble. This usually takes 5-10 minutes. Meanwhile, sieve the flour.
4. Then add the remainder of the milk, the beaten egg, and salt. Stir thoroughly to cover all of the flour.
5. Now it is time for the currants and the raisins. Stir them through the dough as well before you let it proof for at least an hour. Cover the dough with a wet tea towel and store it in a warm draft-free area. The oven is a good spot to proof. You do not have to turn it on just put the bowl inside.
6. Oliebollen are fried in vegetable oil, so heat a pan with ¾ of oil to 370℉/180℃. There is a simple tip to check if the oil is hot enough.
7. Take a piece of bread and put it in the oil. If it starts to fry immediately your oil is hot enough. Now take a gravy spoon or a big ice scoop and a spoon. Scoop a ball of dough and fry them for about 5 to 7 minutes or until golden brown.
8. Drain on some kitchen paper. Sprinkle them with icing sugar and serve immediately. This recipe yields about 12 to 14 oliebollen and they are best eaten while hot.

Dutch Donuts Recipe

Have you ever tried oliebollen? These Dutch donuts are so worth it. If you go to the Netherlands at the end of November or in December you will see stalls with oliebollen everywhere.

We eat them the last few weeks of the year and just like the Dutch apple beignets (appelflappen). We also eat oliebollen on New Year’s Eve.

Besides special oliebollen stalls, you can also buy them at the bakery shop or even at the supermarket. Of course, you can make them yourself and that is what we are doing today.

If you taste them, you will not understand why we only eat yeasted donuts for a couple of weeks per year instead of the whole year round.

You can make them with a prepared pack that contains all of the ingredients but you can also make them from scratch.

Both work just fine but I am showing you how easy it is to make this oliebollen recipe. If you want to follow along just watch the instruction video below.

You will see that these yeasted balls come close to a donut. The big difference between the two is the dough of an oliebol. The dough is very elastic and becomes a little chewy when fried.

There are lots of ways to customize your traditional Dutch oliebollen and make them taste different every time. Just look at the options below.

Oliebollen Personalization Options

You can personalize your Dutchies and fill them with sweet and savory ingredients. Just add the options to the dough and stir through:

• Currants
• Raisins
• Apple
• Banana
• Chocolate chip

You can also use savory ingredients:

• Salmon
• Bacon
• Ham

How To Store Traditional Dutch Oliebollen?

Just in case you do not eat all of these sweet treats in one go, there are several ways you can store oliebollen:

• Outside the fridge – when you are going to eat them on the same day put them in a bowl and leave them out of the fridge
• Fridge – Store them in the fridge for a day or two
• Freezer – if you want to keep them longer store them in the freezer

How To Reheat Oliebollen?

There are also various ways to warm oliebollen.

• Oven – you can warm them in the oven. Preheat the oven to 200℉/93℃. Put the oliebollen on a baking tray and heat them for 5 minutes or until warm
• Skillet – you can also warm them in a skillet with a small layer of oil. Put the Dutch donuts in the skillet and turn them continuously to warm them through
• Air Fryer – if you have an Air Fryer it is a great way to warm oliebollen. Preheat the Air Fryer to 200℉/95℃ then put some parchment liner in the basket and put the oliebollen on top. Do not crowd the basket. Bake for 5 minutes or until warm
• Microwave – when you warm Dutch donuts, you can put them in the microwave and warm them in 30-second increments. Check to see if the oliebollen are warm else repeat. Caution oliebollen turns soft and chewy in the microwave

More Traditional Dutch Recipes

• Oven-baked puff pastry Dutch apple beignets (appelflappen)
• Traditional Dutch pancakes
• The best Dutch apple pie
• Dutch Christmas kerststol stollen bread
• Peppernuts (pepernoten)

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Dutch Oliebollen Doughnuts

Mireille

Serves: 12-14 Prep Time: 70 minutes Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Make Dutch Doughness oliebollen from scratch. Oliebollen are like doughnuts chewy, sweet, fried, and delicious. Great for New Year's Eve!

Ingredients

• 300 gram flour
• 270 ml milk
• 1 large egg
• 2 tablespoons of sugar
• 7 g of dry yeast
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 25 g currants
• 40 g raisins
• 1½ litre vegetable oil

Instructions

1. Leave the currants and raisins in water over night. Drain before use and pad dry
2. Warm 100 ml milk until it is luke warm. After the yeast and sugar are put together add the milk and stir
3. The mixture should start to bubble and rise a bit. This takes a couple of minutes
4. Sieve the flour and add yeast mixture, now add the remainder of the milk, the beaten egg and the salt
5. Stir through until all the flour is covered. Then add the currants and raisins mix again
6. Proof for at least one hour
7. Heat the vegetable oil in a large pan to 375℉/190℃
8. Take to spoons or an ice scoop and make ball of dough and drop them in the oil. Make 3 to 5 at a time to not crowd the pan
9. It will take about 5 to 7 minutes to fry the oliebollen
10. Decorate with icing sugar and serve immediately.

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Nutrition facts

Calories: 129; Fat: 4.1g; Carbs: 22g; Protein: 2.3g

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