Like every year, this year I will also make the traditional Dutch Oliebollen on New Year’s Day. In this blog a video of making the oliebollen and the recipe I use.
Video
Recipe Oliebollen, a traditional Dutch New Year’s Eve treat
Ingredients
500 g. flower
1 teaspoon of dry yeast (approx. 5-10 grams) = 1 sachet
1 teaspoon of sugar
½ teaspoon salt
0.5 liter milk, oat milk, buttermilk (buttermilk makes the dough lighter, warm the milk to approx. 35°C)
1-2 apples, preferably golden apples or other sour apples
2 handfuls of raisins
Possibly vanilla sugar and/or cinnamon for flavor
Possibly an egg
1-1.5 liters of sunflower oil
powdered sugar
Recipe
Mix flour, yeast, sugar and salt well.
Add the (lukewarm) milk little by little and mix in the meantime with a wooden spoon or mixer with hooks.
Let rise for 1 hour.
Peel the apples and cut them into cubes.
Soak the raisins in water (or rum), for about ½ hour, then let them drain.
Mix the apple and raisins into the dough and let it rise for another hour.
Fill a bowl with water and place two spoons in it.
Heat the oil (about 170°C). Check the temperature with a piece of bread, if it bubbles in the oil then the oil is warm enough.
Scoop a ball out of the dough with one spoon and shape it with the other spoon. Fry 6-8 balls in the fat.
Place the spoons back in the bowl of water.
The balls usually turn on their own, sometimes they need some help, so help them turn with a slotted spoon.
When the balls have a good color on both sides, a little brown, remove them from the fat and place them on kitchen paper in a colander. Try one of the first balls to see if it is done.
Continue baking until you run out of dough.
Delicious with powdered sugar.
Have fun baking and enjoy your meal.