August 2017

Ingredients: 1 tbs Lotus Cricket Flour 2 tsp Lotus Gluten Free Baking Powder 1 ½ cups Lotus All Purpose Gluten Free Flour Mix* ½ cup Lotus Organic Rapadura Sugar ¼ tsp Lotus Fine Sea Salt 250g Ricotta cheese 2 tsp Organic vanilla essence 1 Lemon rind and juice 2 Eggs at room temperature Rice bran oil for deep frying Gluten free icing sugar or cinnamon ½ tsp orange extract (optional) Method: 1. Beat ricotta to a creamy consistency. Combine vanilla essence, orange extract, lemon rind and juice, and eggs one at a time. 2. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix batter until just combined. Let sit for 10 minutes at room temperature. 3. Heat rice bran oil in a deep pan until it reaches 170ºC (use a thermometer if possible). 4. Drop rounded teaspoons of mixture into hot oil and fry for 3 minutes. Be sure not to crowd the pan. Carefully remove doughnuts with