Recipe By: Margarida
Ingredients
1 small pumpkin
1 pinch salt
1 cup sugar
½ cup flour
1 pinch baking powder
6 eggs ((2 whole eggs + 4 yolks))
Orange peel (for garnish)
Vegetable oil (for frying)
Sugar and cinnamon (for coating)
Step By Step
1️⃣ Peel
PEEL pumpkin, remove seeds and cut into 1”x1” squares.
2️⃣ Boil
BOIL pumpkin with a pinch of salt until soft but not mushy. Once cooked, drain all water and pat pumpkin dry with a cloth.
3️⃣ Let
LET sit overnight in a sealed container.
4️⃣ Combine
COMBINE pumpkin with sugar, flour, baking powder, 2 eggs and 4 yolks until it forms a dough.
5️⃣ Let
LET sit for 15 minutes then form into small balls, about the size of a tangerine.
6️⃣ Heat
HEAT vegetable oil until almost (but not quite) sizzling.
7️⃣ Drop in dough balls
Drop in dough balls, rotating periodically, until fried through. Once finished, place on a paper towel covered plate to cool.
8️⃣ Roll
ROLL the balls in sugar and cinnamon, once cooled, until lightly coated.
9️⃣ Serve
SERVE and enjoy!
