The bugnes are a speciality of the Lyon region (Southern France), bugnes are valued at Mardi Gras … but also the rest of the time ! Try the recipe in your own country.

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Ingredients for 6 people :

  • 300g all-purpose flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 120g butter
  • 20g yeast
  • 30g sugar
  • 1l frying oil
  • icing sugar

Mix all the ingredients.

Let the dough rest for at least 2 hours.

Then roll out the dough and make lozenges of about 7 cm long and make an indentation in the middle.
Pass one end into the slot and make a kind of node.

To cook, heat the fryer with frying oil  and drop the bugnes  into.
Be watchful  because they brown quickly ! 1 min for each side!
Drain on  kitchen paper,  sprinkle with icing sugar and enjoy.