Recipe | Churros
Ok, so one of my favorite desserts ever is churros. I’d say churros and conchas are my favs. Last year we celebrated Elias’ birthday in Mexico, and his only request was to have churros as the dessert rather than a cake. So we hired a churro bar and I’m pretty sure we all had like 5 churros each with different fillings. Since then, I’ve been wanting to figure out how to make churros. After several failed tries, I finally succeeded in making churros for the family! I have Ignacio Gutierrez to thank for the recipe. He came to our home last year to lead a workshop where he taught how to make pozole rojo, and churros. And now that we have more time at home, I decided to finally try making churros again using his recipe. I’m so glad I did, and now I hope you can enjoy churros at home too.
Gather Ingredients
1 cup milk
1 cup water
4 tbsp butter
2 cups flour
2 tbsp sugar
2 eggs (whisked)
1 tsp salt
Oil for frying
Cinnamon & sugar to roll churros in once fried.
Now what?
1. Add milk, water, butter, and sugar in your pot. Heat and stir until smooth.
2. Once it’s boiling, add flour. With a wooden spoon begin to mix in until flour has fully absorbed liquids.
3. Remove pan from heat. Add whisked eggs and stir them in with a wooden spoon. This is the tough part because the eggs don’t really want to incorporate to the dough. Work your muscles and keep stirring…it will happen eventually.
4. Once incorporated, let the dough rest covered for 15 to 30 minutes.
5. Add dough to a piping bag with a star tip.
6. Heat your oil to 360 degrees. If the oil gets too hot, the churros will heat too quickly and start popping. (Which actually happened to me.)
7. Pipe in the dough. After a few minutes rotate in oil so they fry evenly. Rotate a few times to make sure they cook evenly.
8. Let churros sit and cool, then roll in sugar and cinnamon when ready to eat.
9. Eat!
Ok, now if you do try making churros, please share with me. It would make me so happy to see someone’s successful churro batch. We like to roll in cinnamon and sugar. But we also dip in chocolate, cajeta, or strawberry jelly. What’s your favorite way to eat a churro?
Ok well, now that I’ve written the blog, I need to make another batch because these pictures are making my mouth water.
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