This bread is from Borneo, Indonesia, and is called wadai untuk-untuk. It is normally filled with sweetened coconut or mung bean filling, but I filled them with whatever the kids like (minced meat, chicken, jam, chocolate, cheese, milk powder, etc).
I assume other places in Indonesia have similar kinds of fried bread and perhaps even called the same? Not sure!
My childhood fav. ones are with coconut (unti kelapa), as shown 
My husband thought I was making Hungarian donuts called Farsangi Fank as he said they are almost like them. So if you want to follow the recipe, then you will have fank and even Berliner then! 
Since I did plan to decorate it with icing sugar, for this time I only filled the bread with sweetened coconut filling 😀
Ingredients
- 500 g flour
- 250 cc lukewarm milk
- 45 g fresh yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 100 g sugar
- 100 g butter/margarine melted
Instructions
- Crumble yeast into milk, stir
- Place lightly beaten egg into a bowl along with sugar and yeast mixture.
- Add in flour, salt, knead
- Add in melted margarine, knead
- Add in more flour if needed, so dough wont be sticky
- Let rest for half hour (it will doubled in size already)
- Divide into @70 g balls, let rest for 10 mins
- Flatten each ball and fill with coconut (or other fillings you like), seam to seal, let rest for another 10 mins
- Fry til golden brown
Coconut Filling
- 100 g semi-sweet desiccated coconut
- 30 g coconut sugar, grated
- 1/8 c water
Simmer all ingredients until coconut sugar dissolved, set aside to cool
To Decorate:
Dissolve icing sugar in enough milk/water, add in maple essence/vanilla essence and food coloring of your choice
Start decorating fried bread as ghost, pumpkin, jack o lantern or turkey bird (for Thanksgiving)
This fried bread is similar to Hungarian donuts called farsangi fank. They are best served warm yet great at room temperature as well!
Halloween/Thanksgiving Themed Fried Bread
Ingredients
- 500 g flour
- 250 cc lukewarm milk
- 45 g fresh yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 100 g sugar
- 100 g butter/margarine melted
- 100 g semi-sweet desiccated coconut
- 30 g coconut sugar grated
- 1/8 c water
- icing sugar
- enough milk/water
- maple essence/vanilla essence
- food coloring
Instructions
- For Bread: Crumble yeast into milk, stir. Place lightly beaten egg into a bowl along with sugar and yeast mixture. Add in flour, salt, knead Add in melted margarine, knead. Add in more flour if needed, so dough wont be sticky. Let rest for half hour (it will doubled in size already). Divide into @70 g balls, let rest for 10 mins. Flatten each ball and fill with coconut (or other fillings you like), seam to seal, let rest for another 10 mins. Fry til golden brown.
- For Filling: Simmer all ingredients until coconut sugar dissolved, set aside to cool
- To Decorate: Dissolve icing sugar in enough milk/water, add in maple essence/vanilla essence and food coloring of your choice
- Start decorating fried bread as ghost, pumpkin, jack o lantern or turkey bird (for Thanksgiving)
