Fluffy Ukrainian Verguns with Honey

You will immediately fall in love with soft, fluffy, rosy vergunas with honey! Verguny is a dish of Ukrainian cuisine; it looks similar to Russian brushwood, but differs in composition. When I have kefir and nothing for tea, I happily prepare such verguns — in the heat of the moment it’s just a song! And every housewife can cook them, even if she doesn’t have an oven in the kitchen.
cook time: 50 min
Nora Vaughn
Fluffy Ukrainian Verguns with Honey

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

368
Calories
19g
Fat
41g
Carbs
6g
Protein

Ingredients (10 portions)

For dough:

Sugar 4 tbsp
Wheat flour 450 g
Salt 0.5 tsp
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Chicken eggs 1 pc
Soda 1 tsp
Kefir 250 g

For frying:

Vegetable oil 150 ml

For sprinkling:

Powdered sugar 2 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Required Ingredients

Step 2

Step 2
The dough is prepared in 5-10 minutes. Take sugar, salt and egg

Step 3

Step 3
Mix

Step 4

Step 4
Add kefir and mix

Step 5

Step 5
Add soda

Step 6

Step 6
Then vegetable oil and mix again

Step 7

Step 7
A reaction occurs, the soda is quenched with kefir and the mass begins to bubble

Step 8

Step 8
Now sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen

Step 9

Step 9
Use a spoon and then use your hands to knead the dough.

Step 10

Step 10
The dough should be a little sticky, soft and not tough

Step 11

Step 11
Cover with the bowl in which you kneaded the dough and let it rest for about 20 minutes — during this time the gluten in the flour will swell and it will be easy to work with.

Step 12

Step 12
Then roll out the dough into a layer up to 1 cm thick

Step 13

Step 13
Cut into diamonds

Step 14

Step 14
Make a cut in the middle of each diamond

Step 15

Step 15
The scraps can be collected and rolled out again, but I’ll fry them in this form — you’ll get excellent donuts

Step 16

Step 16
We turn one edge of the dough through the cut as usual with brushwood.

Step 17

Step 17
Now you need to properly heat the oil for frying — first heat the frying pan, and then pour vegetable oil into it, it should be hot, but under no circumstances burn! It is very important. To check the desired temperature, you need to dip one piece of dough into the oil and watch how it fries

Step 18

Step 18
When we have reached the desired oil temperature, we place our vergunas in the frying pan and watch them grow right before our eyes! They fry quickly — about 1 minute on each side.

Step 19

Step 19
Turn over and cook on the other side

Step 20

Step 20
And these are the donuts that I got from scraps

Step 21

Step 21
These are the lush, rosy verguns we got!

Step 22

Step 22
Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired. Enjoy your tea!

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