I Am Not A Foodie

If you have been to Northern China, then you know soy milk and fried donut is a staple breakfast food. I for one love the combination and try to get as much as I can when I go visit. There are a few Chinese restaurants in the Bay Area that serve them on the weekends. But they are really easy to make, and don’t take too much time.

Soy milk:

1 cup of soy beans. Soak them in 6 cups of water overnight. The soy beans will expand quite a bit, to probably three cups. Next morning, for each cup of soaked soy beans, add 2 cups of water, and blend it up fine in a blender.

After the white, and there is not more solid soy beans, strain the liquid through a cheesecloth lined strainer, make sure to squeeze out all of the liquid. The solid that’s left over is actually very nutritious too. It can be make into pancakes, or cakes, or bread. Repeat the blending until all the beans have been used. Heat the liquid until it boils, then turn down the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Make sure you cook it long enough, apparently the uncooked soy bean might cause food poisoning. Also don’t just leave the pot along, the milk foams a lot.

I like adding a little sugar to my soy milk. But I only do it when I’m drinking it. Not to the pot all at once. That way the soy milk lasts a little longer in the fridge, for about a week.

Fried Donut:

1 cup of milk
2 cup bread flour
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1 Tsp. salt
1/2 Tsp. baking soda
Vegetable oil

Put milk in a large measuring cup, warm it up in the microwave. Add baker power, salt, and baking soda, mix well. There will be quite a bit of foam. Add the liquid to the bread flour and mix the dough well. Knead the dough until it’s smooth, add a bit of oil to your hands so the dough doesn’t stick. Cover it well and keep it overnight in room temperature.

Next morning, roll the dough out so it’s about 1 inch thick. Cut into about 1 by 3 inches. Put two pieces together and make a mark in the middle using a chopstick or a knife. In a large pot, heat some oil on medium high, about 350 I think. Take a piece of the doublet, stretch it out and then drop it into oil. Once it’s golden and floating it’s ready.



I know it’s the not the most healthy breakfast, but I just love it, brings back lots of memories. I like breaking the donuts in piece and soak them in my soy milk.