
Here’s a classic Hungarian Szalagos Fánk recipe — light, airy donuts with the signature “belt” (szalag) around the middle:
🇭🇺 Hungarian Donuts (Szalagos Fánk)
Ingredients:
- 4 cups (500 g) all-purpose flour
- 2 ½ tsp (7 g) instant yeast
- ¼ cup (50 g) sugar
- 1 cup (240 ml) lukewarm milk
- 4 tbsp (60 g) softened butter
- 4 egg yolks
- ½ tsp salt
- Zest of 1 lemon (optional, traditional flavor)
- Sunflower oil (for frying)
- Powdered sugar (for dusting)
- Apricot jam (for serving, traditional)

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