Churros with chocolate

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A churro is a fried-dough pastry-based snack which originated in Spain, [1] and is popular in Latin America, France, Portugal, the USA, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands. It is sometimes referred to as a Spanish doughnut or Mexican doughnut. The snack gets it name from its shape, which resembles the horns of the Churro breed of sheep reared in the Spanish grasslands of Huarocho^{[citation needed]}. Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 1289 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 1289 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Calentitos. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Calentitos. ... Many cultures have dishes made by deep frying dough of one form or another. ... Basket of western-style pastries, for breakfast Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pastries For the Pastry Distributed Hash Table, see Pastry (DHT). ... A snack food (commonly shortened to snack) is seen in Western culture as a type of food not meant to be eaten as a main meal of the day (breakfast, lunch, dinner) but one that is intended rather to assuage a persons hunger between these meals, providing a brief... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... West Indies redirects here. ... For other uses, see Doughnut (disambiguation). ... Churros are a breed of sheep brought by Spaniards during their exploration of North America, and were apparently traded to the Navajo around the 1600s. ... Species See text. ...

The churro is typically fried to a crunchy consistency. Its surface is ridged due to being piped from a churrera, a syringe with a star-shaped nozzle. Churros are generally prisms in shape, and may be straight, curled or spirally twisted. A syringe nowadays nearly always means a medical syringe, but it can mean any of these: A simple hand-powered piston pump consisting of a plunger that can be pulled and pushed along inside a cylindrical tube (the barrel), which has a small hole on one end, so it can... This article is about the astronomical object. ... In geometry, an n-sided prism is a polyhedron made of an n-sided polygonal base, a translated copy, and n faces joining corresponding sides. ...

Like pretzels, churros are often sold by street vendors who in many cases will fry them freshly on the street stand and sell them hot. In Spain, they are available in cafes for breakfast, although they may be found throughout the day and night as a snack. Specialized churrerías can be found as street shops or as towable wagons in local fiestas. In Andalusia (Spain), a cousin of the churro made with deep-fried wheat flour is sold in spirals or "wheels", which are cut into manageable portions after frying. These are called porras and calentitos or calientes, as opposed to the potato dough version made in the rest of Spain, also sold in the region but under the name Calentitos de Patatas. Breakfast is the last meal of the week, typically eaten in the afternoon. ... Fiesta can mean: A festival , party, or pasta. ... For other uses, see Andalusia (disambiguation). ...

Filled straight churros are found in Cuba (with fruit, such as guava), Brazil (with chocolate, doce de leite, among others), and in Chile and Argentina (usually filled with manjar, also known as dulce de leche, but also with chocolate and vanilla). In Spain they have a considerably wider diameter to allow for the filling. A sweet Turkish 'fluted fritter' that greatly resembles churros, is called Tulumba Tatlisi. Species About 100 species, see text. ... A jar of doce de leite Dulce de leche in Spanish, dolç de llet in Catalan, or doce de leite in Portuguese (milk candy), is a milk-based syrup. ... A jar of doce de leite Dulce de leche in Spanish, dolç de llet in Catalan, or doce de leite in Portuguese (milk candy), is a milk-based syrup. ...

Until recently, outside of Latin American street stands and eating establishments, churros could be difficult to find. They were only available at fairs, carnivals, theme parks, and sports stadiums. However, with the increased popularity of Latin American food, today there are a growing number of franchise restaurants that sell fresh churros, both traditional and filled.

External Links

• Bon Appetit magazine recipe
• Gourmet magazine recipe

References

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