Llokuma — Print Recipe — The Culinary Codex

Bite-sized balls of soft, yeasted dough deep-fried until golden and then soaked in warm sugar syrup scented with lemon. These syrup-drenched treats are Kosovo's most popular sweet for celebrations.

Ingredients

400g all-purpose flour
7g instant yeast
250ml warm water
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp vegetable oil
Oil for frying
400g sugar
300ml water for syrup
Juice of 1 lemon

Instructions

1 Mix flour, yeast, salt, oil, and warm water into a soft, sticky dough and let rise for one hour.
2 Meanwhile, make syrup by boiling sugar, water, and lemon juice for ten minutes until slightly thick, then cool.
3 Heat frying oil to 165°C.
4 With wet hands, pinch off small balls of dough and drop carefully into the oil.
5 Fry for three to four minutes, turning, until evenly deep golden.
6 Drain briefly, then immediately drop into the warm syrup for two minutes, then transfer to a serving plate.

Did You Know?

Llokuma are the Kosovar version of loukoumades, a dessert that can be traced back to ancient Greece.