154. Churros with hot chocolate (Spanish recipe, Chocolate con churros)
I'm carrying on delighting you with Spanish recipes. Today it will be the most popular breakfast in Catalonia — churros with hot chocolate. I posted the hot chocolate recipe recently, and churros are a bit like our "khvorost" sweets, only "meatier". So making them won't be a problem. The authentic recipe from Jorge de Angel Moliner, one of the brightest representatives of Spanish cuisine, is under the cut :-).
Cooking time ≈ 1 hour.
Ingredients (for the churros):
- 4 glasses of water
- 2 glasses of flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- olive or vegetable oil for frying
- icing sugar
Bring the water to the boil.
Mix the baking powder with the flour.
Take the water off the heat, add all the flour at once and mix thoroughly with a hand mixer or a wooden spatula — the lumps should disappear. Leave the dough for an hour.
Pour vegetable oil into a deep frying pan (the layer should be 2–3 fingers thick) and heat it to 180–200°C. Pipe and fry the churros in small batches so the oil temperature doesn't drop. You can use a piping bag to pipe the churros — ideally with a star-shaped nozzle, so they don't burst.
Move the finished churros onto a napkin, let the oil drain off and put them on saucers.
Serve the churros with hot chocolate straight away, dusted with icing sugar.
Bon appétit!