Churros con Chocolate
Spain's breakfast and late-night snack — ridged sticks of piped flour-and-water dough fried until crisp, rolled in cinnamon sugar and dunked in thick hot chocolate. The star nozzle matters: the ridges stop the dough bursting in the oil.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 250 ml water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil, for the dough
- 150 g plain flour
- 1 l sunflower oil, for frying
- 50 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 400 ml whole milk
- 120 g dark chocolate, chopped
- 2 tsp cornflour
- 1 tbsp caster sugar, for the chocolate
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 10746 kcal · P 35.6g · C 277.2g · F 1072.9g
Estimated from 11 of 11 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Bring the water, salt and 1 tbsp oil to the boil, tip in all the flour at once and beat hard with a wooden spoon for 1 minute until you have a smooth, stiff dough with no dry patches.
- 2While it is still warm, spoon the dough into a strong piping bag fitted with a 1 cm open star nozzle and leave it to cool for 10 minutes.
- 3Mix the 50 g sugar with the cinnamon on a plate.
- 4For the chocolate, whisk the cornflour into 100 ml of the cold milk. Heat the rest of the milk until steaming, take it off the heat and stir in the chocolate and 1 tbsp sugar until melted.
- 5Whisk in the cornflour mixture and cook over low heat, stirring, for 3–4 minutes, until it coats the back of a spoon thickly. Keep warm.
- 6Heat the frying oil in a deep pan to 180°C. Pipe 12 cm lengths straight into the oil, snipping them off with scissors, four or five at a time.
- 7Fry for 2–3 minutes, turning once, until deep golden and crisp. Drain briefly on kitchen paper.
- 8Roll the hot churros in the cinnamon sugar and serve at once with cups of the hot chocolate for dipping.
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Questions and answers
How long does Churros con Chocolate take to make?
About 40 minutes: 15 min prep and 25 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Churros con Chocolate?
9 ingredients: water, salt, sunflower oil, plain flour, caster sugar, ground cinnamon, whole milk, dark chocolate, cornflour.
How many servings does this Churros con Chocolate recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Churros con Chocolate?
About 2686 kcal, with 8.9 g protein, 69.3 g carbohydrate and 268.2 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Churros con Chocolate recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Churros con Chocolate?
Churros con Chocolate comes from Spanish cuisine.
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