Easy Delicious Homemade Beignet Recipe (video)
Beignet has a bunch of meanings depending on where you are. In France, a beignet refers to a fried choux pastry, and in some West African countries that were colonized by the French, it refers to a deep fried dough made from millet! But these beignets are the classic New Orleans style leavened dough deep fried and covered in powdered sugar. Probably most famous from the Cafe du Monde.
It's a super simple recipe. We used instant yeast, which doesn't need to bloom before you add it to the recipe, but if you have active dry yeast, you may wish you bloom it in the water with some of the sugar before you start. We dusted these in powdered sugar at the end, but you can also mix in some Dutch process cocoa or a little bit of cinnamon to the powdered sugar! Both are delicious, though the classic N'awlins beignet is just dusted in plain powdered sugar.
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