Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup of kefir
• 1 egg (you will actually need only yolk for this recipe)
• 1.5 tablespoon of sugar
• 1/3 teaspoon of baking soda
• 2-3 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil for dough
• 2 cups of vegetable oil for frying
• 1 tablespoon powdered sugar

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients: amount of flour you need will vary, so be prepared to use more or less if needed:

   

2. Separate egg yolk from egg white (you will only need yolk for this recipe, here are some recipes for egg whites if you are interested):

   

3. Pour about 2 cups of flour to the mixing bowl, make a small dip in the middle and add egg yolk:

   

4. Add sugar, if you like it more sweet you can do more than 1.5 tablespoons, just follow your taste:

   

5. Add 1/3 teaspoons of baking soda:

   

6. Add a table spoon of vegetable oil:

   

7. And about 3/4 of kefir cup:

   

8. Mix ingredients with a fork until you get dough:

   

   Once dough is homogeneous, start mixing more flour in, spoon by spoon:

   

   Until dough gets stiff enough to be kneaded, then dust place where you will be kneading dough with flour (I used wooden board) and pour dough over it:

   

   Dust dough with flour and knead it with hands, add more flour if needed:

   

   Knead dough until it stops sticking to hands:

   

   Dust it with flour, cover with plastic wrap and let it rest for 15-20 mins:

   

9. Slice piece of dough and knead it a bit more (dust with flour if needed) and roll out into about 3 mm thin sheet, I usually make it wide and short, it is easier to make all pastries the same size that way:

   

10. Using a knife slice sheet into rectangles about 1 inch wide, length of them should be smaller then the cooking pot you will be using to fry pastries in:

    

11. To form a khrustyky pastry shape, cut a slit in the center of one dough rectangle (lengthwise):

    

    Take one side of the rectangle:

    

    And pull it though the slit:

    

    You will get something like this:

    

12. Repeat with the rest:

    

13. Warm up about 1.5-2 cups of vegetable oil in the narrow cooking pot (I used sauce pan) over moderate heat. Add several khrustyky pastries to the oil (they should float in the oil) and fry on one side until golden brown:

    

14. Then flip to the other side and fry until brown as well:

    

15. Move prepared pastries to the paper towel (if you have use slotted spoon to leave oil in the pot). Then repeat from 9 to step 14 for the rest of the dough:

    

16. Then arrange cooled down pastries on the big plate and season then with powdered sugar (a put a bit of powdered sugar in the small sieve and shake it over the plate):

    

17. Serve as dessert: