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Spanish churros
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Spanish churros

Just flour, water, salt and hot oil. Spain's churro was eggless all along.

40 minTime
7 gProtein each
mildSpice
Churros con chocolate in Spain3 chapters · 2 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.
The original
552kcal
7 gprotein
3 gfibre
40minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

4 servings
Water1 cup
Salt½ tsp
Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1¼ cups
Cooking oil (vegetable oil)for deep frying, about 70 g absorbed
Sugar¼ cup to coat, 2 tbsp for the chocolate
Cinnamon powder1 tsp, optional
Dark chocolate (bittersweet chocolate)100 g, chopped
Milk1¼ cups
Cornflour (cornstarch)1 tbsp

Method

6 steps
  1. 1Bring the water, salt and 1 tbsp of the oil to a boil. Take off the heat, tip in the maida all at once and beat hard with a wooden spoon.
  2. 2Cool the dough for 10 minutes, then pack it into a piping bag with a large star nozzle.
  3. 3Heat the oil in a deep kadai to 180 C. Pipe 10 cm lengths straight into the oil, cutting with scissors.
  4. 4Fry, turning once, until deep golden. Drain on paper and roll in sugar mixed with cinnamon.
  5. 5For the chocolate, whisk the milk, cornflour and 2 tbsp sugar, bring to a simmer, then stir in the chocolate until thick.
  6. 6Serve the churros hot with cups of chocolate for dipping.
Serve it like this

Pile the churros on a plate and serve with a small cup of thick hot chocolate per person for dipping.

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