My Mom used to make Pončiki when I was a little girl. Since the rain isn’t stopping here in Latvia decide to make Pončiki for my little girls.
After a short call to my Mom and a half of hour, I had a full bowl of freshly fried Pončiki. Golden brown and delicious. Crunchy from the outside and fluffy on the inside.
Ponchiki
Russian cuisine
Ingredients
- 600 grams Russian quark
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup flour (or a bit more)
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- salt
- oil for frying
Directions
- Pour the oil into a heavy bottomed pot and start heating slowly.
- Mix the quark, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and salt in a bowl.
- Mix flour with baking powder and add to the mixture. Mix until combined and dough forms a ball.
- With wet hands form a small ball (approx. 1 tbsp per ball) and put into heated oil carefully. Cook the Pončiki until they are golden brown on both sides. Keep making them in batches until you have fried all the batter. Make sure they aren’t sticking to the bottom of the pot.
- Take out and let them drain on a paper towel. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Ilze
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Nice!
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I thought about you. Did your grandmother made them?
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No. But sounds fun.
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🙂 if you can find quark (russian) – try them 🙂
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Mmm. I am back in my childhood 🙂 🙂
And we ate pontšikud allways with cranberry kissell 🙂
Need to find my recipe and try yours 🙂
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Definitely! Never ate with cranberry kissell before… should try 🙂
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I miss having quark (russian or german). This looks yummy.
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We where in Germany month ago and the quark we found was soft and without grains. This recipe calls for grainy one. Where are you right now!?
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In Florida, US.
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Oh, it’s far away from Europe 🙂
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Looks good. I might have to search for Russian quark (any quark may be difficult to locate in my neighborhood)😀
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I guess quark is something people eat only in Latvia 🙂 ok, ok in Russia also 🙂 I guess I need to make a home made quark and them share the recipe… I’m not sure if I can do that, have to ask my mom first if she knows the recipe 🙂
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I might be interested in that. Hopefully the ingredients will be available here.
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OK. If I’ll make quark at home, there sure will be recipe on my blog 🙂 Now all the home repair…Maybe I can squeeze that in now, if not – later on 🙂
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Thanks. Sounds good.
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