Not so the casing for mini spring rolls, however; ground chicken and those finely shredded vegetables arrived in an armor of heavy, tough deep-fried dough.

But the anise churros, or deep-fried dough, with it were flaccid by the time they arrived.

Gado-gado, a large, warm salad, was served in a basket of deep-fried dough.

Samosas, Indian turnover-like appetizers of deep-fried dough filled with vegetables or ground meat, are similar to fried ravioli.

Empanadas were mostly about deep-fried dough, which obscured fillings of chicken, beef and wild mushroom.

They are usually sweet, deep-fried from a flour dough, and shaped in rings or flattened spheres that sometimes contain fillings.

They're making Italian sausages and deep-fried dough!

To appease these spirits, food was offered, much of which contained deep-fried dough.

They are balls of deep-fried dough studded with apples, raisins and almonds.

My aunt Rosa Miller learned to make these puffs of deep-fried dough as a child in Greece.