
🇷🇴 RomaniaCatalog recipe
Fried doughnuts of sweet cheese crowned with sour cream and sour-cherry jam — Romania's dessert of no half measures.
For 4 servings.
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Knead cheese, eggs, sugar, soda and flour into a soft dough — barely.
Shape rings plus a small ball each; fry at 165°C until puffed and bronze.
💡 Low-ish oil temperature — papanași must cook through before they brown.
Stack: ring, sour cream flood, cherry jam, ball on top. Serve immediately and cancel plans.
Every Romanian restaurant's dessert page ends the same way. The doughnut wears a small ball on top like a hat, and finishing a portion alone is quietly heroic.
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