Sweet Potato Doughnuts

Happy 2014 Everyone! Wishing you all the best and a healthy New Year. Thank you for being part of our family and site :)
This delicious recipe for Sweet Potato doughnuts or kueh keria is from a blogging friends's site that I had bookmarked for a while and glad I got a chance to try it. The following recipe will make about 8 so I doubled the following amounts to make about 16 doughnuts. 

300g sweet potatoes
80g plain flour
3/4 tsp instant yeast
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp warm water
Vegetable oil for deep frying

Remove the peel and boil the sweet potatoes until tender then mash it with a fork or masher until fine. Mix the warm water and instant yeast and leave it for 5 minutes to froth. 
In a large mixing bowl combine the mashed sweet potato with the flour, yeast, butter and salt using your hands until it resembles a soft dough. Leave the dough in the bowl, covered with cling film for about an hour. 
Make golf ball size round shapes and form a flattened patty with a hole in the middle. Making the shapes with oiled hands or parchment paper as a liner will be easy. Heat the oil and deep fry the sweet potato doughnuts until golden brown in medium high heat and set aside. 

Icing for the doughnuts 
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water

Prepare the syrup by boiling the sugar and water together in a heavy bottomed pan until a thick syrup is formed, this will take around 10 minutes. Gently add the golden doughnuts into the hot syrup until all sides are covered with sugar.
Instead of coating the doughnuts with syrup we can coat it with a dusting of icing sugar.

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29 comments:

  1. We make a gulab jamun type of recipe with sweet potatoes but do not use yeast for that matter...These looks very delicious ..Wish you and yours a very happy new year..hugs and smiles

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  2. Delicious Sweet potato doughnuts, Happy new year to you and your family.

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  3. really amazing... looks more delicious

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  4. I love this! Must be so delicious :) Sweet potatoes are great in desserts

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  5. This looks very innovative & awesome. Happy New Year.

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  6. This one looks very delicious. and liked the usage of sweet potatoes in doughnuts. Unique idea.

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  7. Umh.. tienen que estar deliciosas!! Un beso y feliz año.

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  8. HOLY smokes that sounds and looks amazing!!!

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  9. Happy New Year!! Looks like a lovely sweet treat. :)

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  10. Happy New Year Akeela! So glad you loved the keria..all the best wishes for this new year :-)

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  11. Happy New year dear <3 to you n your family.. the sweet potato doughnuts turned out too good.. wish i could get a bite ;)

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  12. Thanks for dropping by! Doughnuts look lovely!

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  13. Those donuts are colorful and super tempting.. do link up to my event..
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  14. Happy New Year! Sounds like a very interesting recipe, I have definitely not tried such doughnuts before.

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  15. Yum! The colour of those doughnuts looks perfect!

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  16. Wow, nice one and sounds like a great recipe (a unique way of making doughnuts)! :-)
    Happy New Year to you and your family, and may the year brings you ALL great things :D

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  17. Golose,bravo!!!:-))
    Ciao e felice 2014

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  18. Happy 2014 to you as well.These look amazing, I had planned to make a sweet potato pie today I may have to regroup :)

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  19. Wow...sweet potato doughnuts are just so creative!! Delicious recipe!

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  20. Hmm yummy looking it is.Happy 2014:)

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  21. Looks very tempting. Have heard making making Jamun using potato. now, it is totally new to see sweet potato dough nuts.

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  22. Ils sont drôlement réussis!! Bon mercredi;)xxx

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  23. wowww doughnut with sweet potato so yummyyyyyyyyy.. Loved the color

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  24. Hi Akheela, I love this doughnut, very soft and addictive. This is our Malaysian favourite snack. Yours look wonderful.

    Best regards.

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  25. Oh my gosh!!!! Those look so yummy!!!!

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  26. Looks yummy.. Its so perfectly done :)

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