🌻🍯🐝💛Fluffy ‘’Mekitsi’’ (Bulgarian Fried Dough)

🛒 Ingredients:

• 500 g flour

• 1 packet dry yeast (or 20 g fresh yeast)
  

• 250 ml warm milk (or water)
  

• 1 teaspoon sugar
  

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 egg

• 2 tablespoons oil or melted butter

• Oil for frying

• Feta cheese & jar of Bees & Berry (your preferred flavor) 

🥣 Instructions:

1. If using fresh yeast, dissolve it in a little warm milk with a teaspoon of sugar and let it foam (about 10 minutes). If using dry yeast, just mix it with the flour.
   

2. Sift the flour into a large bowl and make a well in the middle.
   

3. Add the yeast (or dry yeast), egg, the rest of the milk, sugar, salt, and oil.
   

4. Knead a soft and sticky dough. Add a little flour if needed, but don’t add too much — the dough should stay soft.
   

5. Cover the dough with a cloth and leave it to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, until it doubles in size.

6. Heat oil in a deep pan or fryer.
   

7. Take portions of the dough with a spoon or your hands and shape mekitsi. Fry them in the hot oil until golden brown on both sides (about 2-3 minutes per side).
   

8. Remove and place on paper towels to drain excess oil.

9. Serve with a slice of feta cheese and your preferred Bees & Berry Classic or Creamed Honey flavor. Add some jam of your choice for an extra sweet twist. 
   

Tip: Mekitsi are best served warm.