The churros are a dough of flour and others ingredients fried in oil.
Their shape can be straight or as a snare; they can be filled with chocolate, cream or spreaded milk. They usually eat for breakfast or snack, with a cup of hot chocolate or coffee with milk.
A variety of churros is the porra, which differs from churros to have in its ingredients: a pinch of baking soda; a time of rest for the dough and more water than the churros. The porra gets directly into the pan with hot oil, forming a spiral that rosca, while for the churro it uses a tool called churrera, that gives the shape of a stick or twist. Frying porras requires a few minutes more than the churros because the dough is more double than the churros; after that it cuts into pieces with scissors or a knife.
Churros
Ingredients
- 300 gr flour
- 500 ml water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon butter
- sugar
- abundant olive oil
Instructions
- Put the water in a pot with salt and butter, leave it to boil.
- Put the flour in a bowl.
- When the water boils, pour in the bowl with the flour, mix it with a wooden spatula until you have a smooth paste; let cool a few minutes.
- Put plenty of oil in a high frying pan.
- Fill the churrera (the tool used to give shape to the churro) and when the oil will be warm, use the churrera to put churros in the pan.
- Turn them on the two sides, and when they are golden brown remove them from the pan and pass them on a plate with paper towels to absorb excess oil.
- Serve with sugar and with a cup of hot chocolate.
