Recipe: Perfect Churros

Churros. A churro is a fried-dough pastry—predominantly choux—based snack. Churros are traditional in Spain and Portugal, where they originated, as well as in the Philippines and Ibero-America. Easy churros recipe with hot chocolate dipping sauce.

Coat the churros: Once all churros are fried, combine cinnamon and sugar on a plate. Roll warm churros, one by one, in sugar to coat, spooning more cinnamon-sugar on as you do for best coverage. Of course homemade churros aren't churros without a cinnamon-sugar shower. You can have Churros using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Churros

1. You need 1 cup of water.
2. You need 5 tbsp of butter.
3. You need 1 tbsp of brown sugar.
4. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
5. It's 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
6. Prepare 2 of eggs.
7. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. You need 4 cup of oil for frying.
9. Prepare of coating.
10. Prepare 1/4 cup of sugar.
11. It's 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.

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Churros step by step

1. Combine water, butter, sugar and salt in a medium pot and bring to boil over medium heat..
2. Turn off heat and add flour all at once. Stir briskly until a ball forms..
3. Turn into a large bowl or mixing bowl. Let cool 5 minutes..
4. Beat eggs with vanilla in a small bowl..
5. Mix in half the eggs either with a wooden spoon or electric mixer on medium speed until combined. Mix in remaining egg until smooth..
6. Heat 2-3 inches of oil to 350ºF. Set up a piping bag with a ½ inch star tip and fill with half the dough or fill a churrera fitted with a star tip..
7. Squeeze 3-4 inch lengths of dough into hot oil. Use your non-dominant hand to squeeze and your dominant hand to cut lengths off with scissors or a knife..
8. Fry 4 churros at a time for 2-3 minutes on each side. Turn them with a slotted spoon..
9. When golden brown, remove to paper-lined tray to drain..
10. While still warm coat with sugar/cinnamon mixture..
11. Serve hot..

The Mexican version of a quick fried cake, churros are incredible tasty treats that couldn't be easier to make. Whether you want to craft them from scratch or are looking for a quicker fix. Meanwhile, spoon the churro dough into a pastry bag fitted with a large tip. Fry the churros, turning them once, until golden brown. Remove from the oil, and drain on.

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