Sufganiyot for Hanuka

Continuing with our Hanuka theme this week, the Hebrew Cooking elective students prepared sufganiyot. These are the jelly doughnuts traditionally eaten this time of year in Israel. To be honest, it would have taken us more time than we had in the classroom to prepare the actual fried jelly doughnuts, so instead, I found a recipe for baked doughnuts that can be eaten with jelly. We added some pre-made icing on the top of the doughnuts before eating them. The results were very tasty!

This week's Hebrew vocabulary Review and New Words

La'seem et ha'kemach, sookar, avkat afiya, egoz mooskat, keenamon, v'melach l'toch ha'ke'ara ha'g'dola, v'l'arbev otam b'yachad (Put the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt into the big bowl, and stir them together)

B'oto ha'z'man, leeshbor et shtei ha'beitzeem l'toch ha'ke'ara ha'k'tana, v'leetrof otam eem ha'mazleg (At the same time, break the two eggs into the small bowl, and beat them with the fork)

Achshav, l'hoseef et ha'beizeem, ha'vaneel, he'chalav, v'et ha'Crisco l'toch ha'ke'ara ha'g'dola, v'l'havreesh et ha'kol b'yachad, eem ha'havrasha (Now, add in the eggs, the vanilla, the milk, and the Crisco shortening into the big bowl, and whisk them all together with the whisk)

Whisking is hard to do when you're working with a very sticky dough!

A very, very sticky dough!!!

After a lot of whisking, the batter is finally ready

La'tet et tavneet ha'sufganiyot l'Josh. Josh - l'harsees et ha'tavneet eem shemen (Give the doughnut pan to Josh. Josh - spray the pan with oil)

Az, l'malei et ha'tavneet eem ha'batzek (Then, fill the tray with the dough)

Spread the dough evenly in each doughnut hole with your finger

Achshav zeh moochan la'seem ba'tanoor. La'afot et ha'sufganiyot esreem dakot. (Now it's ready to put in the oven. Bake the doughnuts for 20 minutes.)

L'nakot et ha'shoolchan (clean the table)

The finished product (before the glaze)

Next Wednesday evening, the day before Thanksgiving, we'll be lighting the first Hanuka light.  Enjoy your latkes and doughnuts (baked or fried!).  CHAG HANUKA SAMEACH - HAPPY HANUKA!