🇲🇪 Montenegrin Cuisine

Priganice

Fried Dough Balls

Prep Time 1 hour 30 min
Servings 6
Difficulty Easy
Calories 318 kcal

Puffy, golden Montenegrin doughnuts — light and airy inside, crisp outside — served drizzled with honey or dusted with sugar.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Mix flour, yeast, sugar, and salt. Add warm milk and egg, stir to a soft sticky dough.
  2. 2 Cover and let rise 1 hour until doubled.
  3. 3 Heat oil to 180C (350F) in a deep pot.
  4. 4 With wet hands, pinch off walnut-sized pieces and drop into hot oil.
  5. 5 Fry 2-3 min per side until puffed and deep golden.
  6. 6 Drain on paper towels and drizzle with honey or dust with powdered sugar.

Did You Know?

No Montenegrin slava (patron saint celebration) is complete without a towering plate of priganice served to every guest who enters.