🇳🇱 How to Make Oliebollen

Craving Oliebollen? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Oliebollen at home, in about 2 hr 30 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 500g plain flour
• 7g instant yeast
• 350ml lukewarm milk
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp salt
• 150g raisins and currants, soaked in warm water 30 min then drained
• 1 apple, finely diced (optional)
• oil for deep frying
• icing sugar

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Make a thick, sticky batter with the flour, yeast, salt, egg and lukewarm milk. It is a batter, not a dough — it should be too wet to handle.
2. Beat it hard for 3 min to develop some structure, then fold in the drained raisins and apple.
3. Cover and prove in a warm place for 1 hour until doubled and full of bubbles. Then knock it back and prove 30 min more.
4. Dry the soaked fruit properly before it goes in. Wet raisins make the oil spit violently and leave hollow patches.
5. Heat the oil to 175°C exactly. Too hot and you get a dark shell around raw batter — the classic oliebol failure.
6. Scoop with two wet spoons and fry 6–8 min, turning, until deep brown all over. Drain, cool a little, and bury in icing sugar. Eaten on New Year's Eve, from a stand, in the cold.