breakfast

Churros

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I love churros but not the sweet chocolate coated variety you find at fiestas. The churros I grew up with were savoury, home made and eaten as a Sunday breakfast treat. Mum would make spirals of churros in a frying pan and then stack them in the centre of the kitchen table for the family to gorge ourselves on. So if you fancy doing something different this weekend, aren’t calorie counting and are prepared to get messy – you have to try this. Your nearest and dearest will love you for it!

I recommend eating your churros with a good coffee, followed by a fresh fruit salad.

As a child in La Linéa, Juani and her family would visit their local imageChurrería in El Barrio on Sunday mornings. The churros were fried in huge deep pans and either made into large spiral wheels (for an entire family) or into fingers as individual portions. The churros were eaten for breakfast with a hot drink of coffee, hot chocolate (Cola Coa) or in my mum’s case a cup of tea!

Ingredients
175g self raising flour
pinch of salt
150ml tepid water
300ml vegetable oil

Equipment
Piping bag with a 10mm round nozzle  (or a churros pipe)

Method

  1. Sift the flour into a large bowl and mix in the salt.
  2. Create a well in the middle of the flour and gradually add the water.
  3. Using a fork gradually combine the water into the flour until you have a thick batter
  4. Heat up the vegetable oil in a large frying pan.
  5. Spoon the batter into a piping bag.
  6. Once the oil is up to temperature (you can drop some of the batter into the oil to test it – once the batter sizzles it’s ready).
  7. Pipe the batter starting from the centre of the pan working outwards in a circular motion.
  8. Allow to fry over a medium to hot pan for a few minutes and then turn over to cook the other side. Your churro should be a golden colour.
  9. Place the churro on a plate covered  in a kitchen towel and serve immediately.

Tip: Make sure the batter is thick enough so that it keeps its form as it is piped into the frying. Otherwise it’ll end up like a pancake! Add a little more flour if it gets too thin.