Tulumba Albanian Version Recipes

TULUMBE

Steps:

• Put water, sugar and lemon juice in a deep pan. When starts to boil, reduce heat to medium temperature and cook approx. 15 minutes, until you get syrup. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely.
• In a deeper pan put water, oil, add sugar and salt and bring to boil. When boiling, remove from heat and, gradually, add flour, stirring constantly. Knead until a thick dough is obtained. Allow the dough to cool for 10 min.
• When the mixture is cooled add 5 yolks and mix the dough well.
• In the frying pan, pour oil in which we are going to fry tulumbe. Heat oil to medium temperature as it should be neither too hot nor cold.
• Put the mixture in a pastry bag and make shapes 5-6 cm long. You can use scissors to cut them.
• Fry them a few minutes on each side to get a nice yellow colour. Tulumbe should be crusty outside and soft inside.
• When the tulumbe are fried, place them in the cooled syrup. You can put them in the fridge to cool. Tulumbe are served cold.

TULUMBA (ALBANIAN VERSION)

Steps:

• SYRUP:.
• Put the sugar, water and lemon juice into a saucepan, and after melting the sugar by stirring, allow it to boil until moderately thick.
• Set aside to cool.
• PASTRY:.
• Heat the margarine in a saucepan, add the water and salt and bring to the boil.
• Reduce heat and add the flour at once.
• Stir the mixture constantly with a wooden spoon and continue until mixture leaves the sides of the pan and forms a ball.
• This should take 6 minutes, then remove pan from heat and set aside to cool.
• When cool, add the eggs and knead for approximately 10 minutes.
• Using a pastry bag with a large nozzle or a serrated spoon, put 7-8 pastries in a pan containing the heated olive oil.
• Start frying the pastry over low heat, increase heat when pastry puffs up a bit and fry until golden.
• Remove fried pastry with a perforated spoon, draining away the oil, then put into the syrup.
• Strain off the syrup, place tulumba on serving plate and serve when cool.