These sweet, square and holeless French doughnuts are known as beignets. New Orleans’ traditional breakfast always includes a few of these powdered sugar delicacies. —Beth Dawson, Jackson, Louisiana

New Orleans Beignets

(1/4 ounce) active dry yeast

water

evaporated milk

canola oil

sugar

egg, room temperature

flour

Confectioners' sugar

These were simple to make.  Keeping the dough in the refrigerator overnight made handling the dough so much easier.  I just added a small amount of flour to the dough to remove the sticky. I love the crunchy outside texture and the inside was warm, and soft.   I didn't have a injector for the preserves but I feel it is just as easy to serve that on the side.   My motto  KISS (keep it simple stupid)   Will definitely be making these again, although, these will last for awhile in the freezer.

Beignets are a classic Louisiana treat! This is a great recipe!

My family loves these!  I've made these beignets the past several years on Shrove Tuesday and will be making them again this year.  I add a tablespoon of lemon zest to the dough, which is the only change I make.  The beignets are easy to prepare and always turn out great.  Delicious!

Absolutely fabulous recipe!  For my daughter's birthday she wanted beignets.  I could not find the Cafe du Monde mix, so I went with this one.  Since I did not have self-rising flour, I added 1 tablespoon baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt.  All together I used about 3 cups of flour.  The beignets turned out beautifully, crisp on the outside and soft and tasty on the inside.  Much better than the box mix!

hherman5121 if you read the recipe a little further, you will read that you add the rest of flour until it is a soft dough, you may not need the all  flour, hope this helps

These little square donuts are really special. the taste is GREAT and EASY to make. I will be making again. I put raspberry seedless preserves in half of them (as per husbands request) O! my WONDERFUL.

The ingredients says 4 1/2 cups of self-rising flour and the directions say 2 cups of the flour what happens to the other 2 1/2 cups?

It has such a delightful southern taste! And fun to make too!

Absolutely loved these!  So easy to make the night before and fry in the morning!  My son asked for these for his birthday, instead of the his traditional request of cinnamon rolls!  high praise!

The recipe does not call for salt.  You need a little salt.  It was really bland.  I mean,  it’s mostly flour.   You need salt.  I suppose if you’r taste buds have been destroyed due to radiation exposure, I’m sure they would be ok.  Other wise, add a teaspoon of salt.  For the love of god, add salt

These are great!  The are super fluffy and sweet.  They were just what we were looking for.

I made these for breakfast this morning. They were not quite what I expected. I expected them to taste more like the funnel cakes I buy at the county fair, but they were still very good. They were really easy and everyone like them.

I made these day before yesterday and they are wonderful. I made several of them in the 2 inch squares then made some as 2" x 6" long johns and they all turned out great. some of them I dusted with the powdered sugar. as written, and some I glazed with powdered sugar and milk, and some glazed with powdered sugar,brown sugar and milk and a drop of maple.  I ended up with 32 and put half of them in the freezer. we ate some yesterday morning, then this morning they were a tiny bit tough, so I popped them into the microwave for 10 seconds and they were again nice and soft. these are certainly a keeper!

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new orleans beignets

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes

Total: 60 minutes

Servings: 4

Author : Taste of Home

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