What is Churro??
A churro is a fried-dough pastry-predominantly choux-based snack. Churros are traditional in Spain and Portugal, from where they originate, as well as the Philippines and Ibero-America. They are also consumed in the Southwestern United States, France and other areas that have received immigration from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries.They are normally eaten for breakfast dipped in champurrado, hot chocolate, dulce de leche or café con leche. Sugar is often sprinkled on top.
Preparation
Churros are fried until they become crunchy, and may be sprinkled with sugar. The surface of a churro is ridged due to having been piped from a churrera, a syringe-like tool with a star-shaped nozzle. Churros are generally prisms in shape, and may be straight, curled or spirally twisted.
The dough is a mixture of flour, water and salt. Some versions are made of potato dough.
So lets go straight to our recipe.
Churros with dark chocolate sauce
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Churros with dark chocolate sauce
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So i'm going to share my favourite recipe of the churros dough first..
Ingredients for churros dough :
- Water 170ml
- Salt 3gr
- Sugar 10gr
- Butter 70gr
- Flour 100gr (Sieve the flour. It's could make the dough smooth)
- Eggs 3pcs (Beaten)
How to make churros dough :
- First put you medium sauce pan on the stove with a medium heat. Then add Water, Salt, Sugar and butter into the pan.
- Bring the combination of water,salt,sugar and butter to boiled. Make sure the butter is completely melt.
- After that, low down the heat and add flour. With a wooden spoon keep stirring the mixture till it form a smooth ball and turn off the heat.
- Make sure the dough is cool down and then pour the beaten eggs to dough and mix. If your dough is too hot it could make the egg cook.
- You could use a mixing machine by put the dough into the mixing bowl. Beat the dough with your pedal of mixing machine could cool down the dough quicker. after the dough is cool down add beaten eggs bit by bit.
Ingredients for Dark chocolate sauce:
- Water 350ml
- Sugar 350gr
- Dark Chocolate 100gr
- Cocoa Powder 55 gr
How to make Dark chocolate sauce:
- Chop the dark chocolate.
- In a small pot add water, sugar on a stove with medium heat.
- After the sugar melt put a chopped dark chocolate into a pot keep stirring till the chocolate melt.
- At the end, add sieved cocoa powder into a pot and keep stirring till the sauce become thick.
For Frying you needed:
- High-sided pot
- Vegetable oil
- Large open star piping nozzles
- Piping bag
- Scissor or knife (to cut the strip of the dough while frying)
How to Fry the churros:
- Heat about 2 inches of oil in a heavy, high-sided pot over medium-high heat until the oil reaches 360 degrees F.
- Fill the dough into a piping bag with nozzle inside.
- Squeeze a strip of dough into the hot oil . Repeat, frying 3 or 4 strips at a time. Fry untill golden brown. and then put the cooked churros on the paper towel to drain the oil.
- After the churros cool down. roll them on the plate with mixture of sugar and cinnamon.(Optional)
Last but not least serve the churros on the plate and don't forget dark chocolate sauce..
Here you have a beautiful plate of churros...:3:3
Hope you like my recipe....
Enjoy....
