Re: A healthy doughnut recipe?

August 3, 2009

Hi ,

I can understand wanting to make your husband less resistant to

changes by making a " better " version of his old favorites, but in

general, rather than fixing a bad old recipe, I just try to learn to

use better ingredients in delicious ways. They may not make the same

old recipes, you may need to learn to eat some new dishes.

That said, I've never made doughnuts so these are just guesses but...

Fried starches just aren't going to be great for you no matter how you

dress it up, but at least make sure you use only natural oils and fats

to fry it. Deep-frying requires a lot of oil so it's expensive to use

good quality fat, but lard and/or coconut oil is probably the way to

go. Even unrefined peanut oil, not re-used. Just stay away from

soybean oil, canola oil, other pufa oils (polyunsaturated fatty

acids), which are harmed by heat and too high in Omega 6. Not good for

you even if not heated though. See the Weston A. Price Foundation

website for articles galore on oils and fats. Getting the oils right

will avoid the worst damage from traditional doughnuts. It's still a

lot of carbohydrate, though, which may contribute to metabolic syndrome.

Ideally you'd soak and sprout the flour and do a slow sourdough rise

to make the gluten as digestible as possible. Try incorporating part

coconut flour; not sure how nuts flours would work. And don't add too

much sugar. Let us know if you come up with anything!

Jeanmarie

On Jul 21, 2009, at 3:32 AM, d_julia.1975 wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> I'm fairly new to WAP nutrition, but am very, very into it. I'm

> trying to also get my family (two little boys and my husband) on

> board. Easier said than done, but we are slowly making our way.

>

> To that end, my husband especially loves special dessert treats --

> among them, doughnuts. I'm wondering if there is a nutritionally

> good doughnut recipe anyone has out there? It would need to be fried

> in oil (like " normal " doughnuts) because I don't think it would pass

> the hubby's taste test otherwise!

>

> Thanks in advance to all who contribute here.

>

> ~

>

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