Crunchy churros with chocolate sauce: Mediterranean doughnuts

Do you love doughnuts? How about doughnuts with loads of sugar and a rich chocolate sauce? From Spain and Portugal, there is a delicacy which rivals almost any other, the churro. Similar to doughnuts, these elongated dough treats provide you with the perfect opportunity to eat more chocolate. Our crunchy churros with chocolate sauce is a great traditional Mediterranean sweet treat known across the world.

Making crunchy churros with chocolate sauce

They have a very recognisable look with their ridges created by specific piping bag attachments. This just gives more room for cinnamon sugar and chocolate sauce. When making the sauce, you will be using a double boiling method, also known as a bain-marie, to melt the chocolate. This gradually melts the chocolate for a more smooth consistency and keeps the richness from the chocolate. You can also add some coffee powder to the sauce to boost the flavour.

Do you love doughnuts and and chocolate? These crunchy churros with chocolate sauce are the perfect combination and they even have cinnamon sugar.

Churros with Chocolate Sauce Recipe

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Recipe by Gary Dunn Course: DessertCuisine: Spanish, PortugueseDifficulty: Easy

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

20

minutes

Total time

40

minutes

Homemade churros are a classic favorite fried food! 

Ingredients – DOUGH

• 1 tbsp 1 sugar

• 1 cup 1 water

• ½ tsp ½ salt

• 2 tbsp 2 oil

• 1 cup 1 flour

• INGREDIENTS – SERVING

• 4 tbsp 4 sugar

• 2 tsp 2 cinnamon powder

• 1 80g 1 slab Aero milk chocolate

• 2 tbsp 2 milk

• ½ tsp ½ oil

Method

• In a saucepan add water, sugar, oil and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Add in the flour a little at a time as you keep stirring.
• Mix until it forms a ball.
• Put your dough into a piping bag. Heat a deep pot with oil.
• When the oil is hot, squeeze out strips of dough into the hot oil.
• Deep fry until cooked and golden brown.
• Drain oil from churros and allow to stand for a few minutes.
• Mix sugar and cinnamon and evenly coat the churros.
• METHOD – CHOCOLATE SAUCE
• Break up chocolate into pieces and leave in a bowl with half a teaspoon of oil and two tablespoons of milk. Put this bowl over a larger bowl of boiling water and allow it to melt.
• Serve churros with melted chocolate.

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