Churros

Everyone has heard the word "churros" at least once in their life. But are you sure you know exactly what they are? I, for one, didn't. At least, not until my Spanish friend showed me home-made churros.

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon - the best ideas always came during lazy Sunday afternoons on the Erasmus exchange. We wanted to have a snack but we had nothing to eat, so my friend asked me "why don't we prepare churros"? She was a bit reluctant at the beginning because we didn't have the shaping machine, but in the end I convinced her that it didn't really matter.

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For the record, this is how a churros shaping machine looks like.

Churros are very easy and fast to prepare. You can eat them for breakfast, or as a snack. In Spain they generally eat them with milk, tea or hot chocolate.

Here's a picture of that time when I tried making them on my own.

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour (+1 cup to roll out the pastry)
• 2 cups water
• 2 cups sunflower oil
• 4 tablespoons brown sugar

As for the kitchen tools, you need

• 1 big bowl
• 1 frying pan

Directions

Place the flour in a bowl, then add the water slowly while mixing them together. Keep on mixing until you have a compact mixture. Now add half of the remaining cup of flour and work out the pastry with you hands.

At this point, if you have the shaping machine, put the pastry inside and you'll have the perfect churros shape. If you don't have it, take a spoonful of pastry and give it a stretched round-ish shape.

Place the pan with the oil on the stove and heat it up. When the oil is warm enough, put the shaped churros - whatever is the shape you gave them. Wait until they become golden and turn them. When they're golden on both sides, take them out of the pan and put them on a dish. I recommend you place some napkins on the dish, so that they can absorb the exceeding oil. Pour the sugar on top of them and wait a couple minutes.

In the meantime, prepare whatever it is that you want to drink - I suggest hot chocolate.

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This is how churros are going to look if you don't have the shaping machine.

Only a few weeks ago, when I went to visit my friend in Spain, I had the chance to eat proper original spanish churros. Her dad made them for us. They looked waaay better that the ones we made while on the Erasmus exchange.

Here's a picture.

We drank milk and hot chocolate - a sweet dream.

Try them and leave a comment if you want to share your churros experience!

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