Easy Churros Recipe (VIDEO) (2024)

FAQs

How to make a fake churro? ›

To check all those boxes, it's important to fry your churros in very hot oil. 400°F (204°C) oil provides the heat necessary to brown and crisp the outsides of the churros while also creating almost-instant steam inside of them. Thus we get crispy churros that are not oil-logged and have a light texture.

Churros Ingredients

Sugar: White sugar goes into the churro dough and into the cinnamon-sugar topping. Salt: A pinch of salt enhances the flavors of the other ingredients. Oil: You'll need vegetable oil for the dough and to fry the churros. Flour: All-purpose flour gives the churro dough structure.

Fry the churros for about 2 minutes on each side, until they're a light golden brown, and are cooked all the way through. Drain on a paper towel-lined baking sheet. For straight (well, straighter!) churros, it helps to freeze them before frying.

The main difference between Mexican and Spanish churros is cinnamon. What is this? In Spain, churros are only coated in sugar and served with a chocolate dipping sauce. In Mexico, churros are coated in a sugar and cinnamon mixture and can be eaten alone or with dipping sauces like chocolate or caramel.

The secret to the churro is finding high-quality oil. Water, butter, sugar, salt, and flour are enough to create the fried dough mixture. Vanilla and egg can give it the right taste and texture. Using a sculpted pipette tip, churros can be given their stereotypical shape.

In Seville (Andalusia), the name "calientes" (meaning hot) or "calentitos de rueda" is sometimes used instead of the word churro. These tend to refer to the thicker variant, called porra. Calientes are usually fried in the shape of a continuous spiral and cut into portions afterwards.

The main reason you may end up with raw churros is pulling them from the frying pan before they have cooked through. If you notice they are raw on the inside, pop them back in the pan to fry an additional minute or two.

Churros are made with simple choux pastry dough – the same dough used for Eclairs, Cream Puffs and Zeppole Donuts. The churro dough is piped directly into hot oil then rolled and generously coated in cinnamon sugar.

If the oil is too cold, the churro will fall apart and take on too much oil, resulting in a greasy mess. It's also important to let the oil come back up to the proper temp between batches. Finally, don't overcrowd your pan; otherwise, the churros will steam instead of fry.

Why is my churros wet inside? ›

Soggy batter means your oil was not hot enough. Raw inside means your oil was too hot, so the onion ring browned on the outside before the inside was cooked.

when frying two churros of the same size at the same time. the one piped through a circular tip will eventually explode. because the pressure from the build of steam inside. is too much for its round walls. using a star tip though creates ridges that increase the surface area.

For those classic ridges on the fried dough, I suggest using a piping bag fitted with an open star pastry tip like this Wilton 1M piping tip. For larger churros, I would go for Wilton 6B piping tip.

My churros fell apart while frying. What happened? The leavening in the dough did not evenly spread throughout the dough. So make sure to whisk the baking powder into the flour VERY well so that it disperses properly throughout the dough.

Use a wooden skewer to make a hole on the inside of each churro. Use a piping bag with a long round tip to fill the churros with dulce de leche or Mexican cajeta. Combine sugar and cinnamon and roll the churros in this mixture.

If you don't have piping bags, just use a couple of sealable plastic baggies with corners cut. You can actually even cut a triangle into the corner of the plastic bag to create more texture, similar to a star tip. Then just pipe the dough into the oil as instructed.