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Tullumba

Fried dough in syrup

⏱ 1 h🍽 Serves 30 pieces

Ridged fingers of choux-like dough, fried crisp and dropped into syrup. Found in every sweet shop.

Tullumba
Photo: Risteristevski at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Përbërësit

Ingredients

  • 250 ml water, 60 g butter, a pinch of salt
  • 200 g flour
  • 3 eggs
  • Oil for frying
  • Syrup: 400 g sugar, 300 ml water, lemon

Përgatitja

Method

  1. Make the syrup and let it cool.
  2. Bring the water, butter and salt to a boil, add the flour at once and stir until it forms a ball.
  3. Cool a little, then beat in the eggs one by one.
  4. Pipe through a star nozzle into warm (not too hot) oil, cutting into 5 cm pieces.
  5. Fry until golden, drain and drop into the cool syrup for a minute.

Video

Watch it made

Videos are by independent Albanian cooks on YouTube. Their method may differ from ours.

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