Having this deep fryer has made me want to deep fry everything. Oven bake chips? Nup, straight in the deep fryer for them. I really don’t recommend getting one. I’m not that health-oriented but I’m sure this much frying can’t be good for you.
Before I put it away I needed to investigate the final frontier – deep fried desserts. Which led me straight to churros. I’ve loved churros ever since I first met them at the Queen Vic market, and then San Churro opened and provided a side of dipping chocolate. I was hooked.
I started to research churro recipes thinking it would be reasonably difficult to make. When I research recipes, I pull out every book I have, google recipes, images, ratings, comments, forums and watch a couple of videos just to be sure. And so I discovered the big debate around churros is eggs or no eggs. I decided to try no eggs to start.
Luckily for me, the first recipe I tried was perfect as it was. It makes for an impressive dinner party dessert or an indulgent tea time snack. Plus, it’s so easy that you’ll want to eat churros for dessert, breakfast and lunch.
Churros
Ingredients
for cinnamon sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
for the churros
- 250 ml water or 1 cup
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup flour
for frying
- oil for deep frying
for the chocolate sauce
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 100 ml cream
Instructions
- Mix sugar and cinnamon for the churro coating. In a separate bowl, melt chocolate and cream in the microwave to make a dipping sauce.
- In a small saucepan, combine water, oil, sugar and salt. Set on a high heat and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from heat and add flour, all at once. Stir vigorously until the mixture forms a smooth ball that comes away from the sides of the pan.
- When you are ready to eat them, heat oil in a a deep fryer or heavy pan to about 190C. You can test if the oil is ready by putting a small piece of dough into the hot oil - if it immediately rises to the surface, it is ready.
- Place half the churro mixture into a piping bag with a 13mm star tip. Pipe 5 inch lengths into hot oil, turning midway so that they brown evenly.
- Remove when the churros are golden brown (not lightly browned or they will not be cooked on the inside) and drain on paper towels. Immediately coat in the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Serve while warm with dipping chocolate on the side.
Tips for getting perfect churros:
- Don’t overfill the piping bag, the dough is quite dense and can stretch and tear the bag
- If the oil is too hot the churros will crack and burst, if it’s not hot enough the churros will be soggy and oily
- If you don’t have a piping bag just use a ziploc, or you can pinch off little balls of dough to make little donuts
Just wondering, is there such thing as overworking the mixture ?
When u mix vigorously, do you mix it until the dough is cooled as recommended by some ?
Finally, is this the Churros recipe you used for your market challenge?
I did this once and it was real good. But just wondering whether did I do it wrong or something.
I don’t really think you can overwork this mixture at all. This is default recipe because it’s so easy, and the one I used for the market challenge, though it was in bigger batches which can be a bit hard to manage because the dough is so stiff. Mix until the dough comes away from the edges of the saucepan, forming a ball.