Papanasi Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease an 8x16-inch cake pan.
• Beat egg whites in a bowl until foamy. Add sugar little by little while continuing to beat.
• Blend the yolks and oil together in a bowl.
• Add the yolk mixture to the bowl with the egg whites. Add lemon zest and vanilla extract. Mix for 3 more minutes. Gently blend in flour using a tablespoon. Pour batter into the prepared pan and spread cherries on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until crust is golden brown, 40 to 60 minutes. Turn off the oven, leaving cake inside with the door closed for 30 minutes. Allow to cool before serving.

Steps:

• mix together the cottage cheese, semolina, 2 tablespoons of flour, the sugar and eggs (and the vanilla sugar as well, if you like the flavor); then lay down a thin layer of flour on which you will put the crude "papanasi"; make small balls out of the mix and cover them in flour on the outside in order to prevent them from being sticky; put a hole in their center so the end they should look like a torus (like a donut, if you like). Also make some smaller balls - these are to be placed on top of the donuts, in the end. These balls should be a bit bigger than the hole in the donuts. heat the oil, then fry the papanasi dough mix balls and the donuts you made. The oil should cover the content of the papanasi. You will see that the balls and "donuts" will rise - and when they do it's sign they are done. Make sure to cook them on both sides. After baking every ball and donut, put them on plates - each donut with a ball on top. Pour some cream on top and add jam on each "group". Voila! Ready to be served! As jam, you can choose wild cherry jam, wooden fruits jam etc. - according to taste. Preparing "papanasi" should not take more than 30 minutes, mixing and baking included. It is an easy to cook desert - but pretty tasteful. Some avoid using semolina and use only flour. Others choose to grind the skin on a half of an orange and add it into the mix, for a special flavor. I prefer the simple recipe - and my papanasi always taste differently depending on the jam I choose.