Easy, delicious Spanish recipes?!?!
Answers: I often have to bake dishes for a Spanish club. Does anyone know of a really good, easy thing to make? I often make flan, but it's kind of embarrassing to make the same thing every meeting haha.
I love Spanish Fritters, it is easy to make, and the fritters are light and delicious.
Powdered sugar, 1 tablespoonful; butter, 2 ounces (2 tablespoonfuls); salt, 1 teaspoonful; water, 1 cup; yolks of 4 eggs; flour. Directions: Put the water into a saucepan, add the sugar, salt, and butter, and, while it is boiling, stir in flour enough to have it leave the pan, then stir in, one-by-one, the yolks of the eggs; now drop a teaspoonful at a time into boiling lard and fry to a light brown. If nicely done they will be very puffy.
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Spanish Buns
One cup butter, two cups brown sugar, yolks of four eggs, whites of two (other whites to be used for frosting), one cup sour milk, one teaspoon each vanilla, cloves, and cinnamon, one-half teaspoon nutmeg, two cups flour, one teaspoon baking powder. Frost and bake as instructed below. Sprinkle one cup of chopped nuts on top of cake. Cake to be baked in long pan.
Frosting: One cup brown sugar, two whites of eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. Put on cake before baking. Bake in slow oven.
Or the original spanish churros
The Churros
Here's the ultimate recipe to make your own churros at home, just like they were at the churrería stands. Once you make the churros, you can make the authentic chocolate dip to dunk them in.
Vegetable or Olive Oil
1 cup water
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
Prepare to fry the churros by heating oil in a pan (1 to 1&1/2 inches) to 360 degrees F.
To make churro dough, heat water, margarine and salt to rolling boil in 3-quart saucepan; stir in flour. Stir vigorously over low heat until mixture forms a ball, about 1 minute; remove from heat. Beat eggs all at once; continue beating until smooth and then add to saucepan while stirring mixture.
Spoon mixture into cake decorators' tube with large star tip (like the kind use to decorate cakes). Squeeze 4-inch strips of dough into hot oil. Fry 3 or 4 strips at a time until golden brown, turning once, about 2 minutes on each side. Drain on paper towels. (Mix Sugar and the optional cinnamon); roll churros in sugar or dump the sugar on the pile of churros, like the pros. That churro taste will take you right back to your favorite summer days walking the paseos of Spain.
Note: REAL churros in Spain are made without cinnamon mixed with the sugar, but the cinnamon adds an extra nice flavor.
Chocolate for Churro Dunking
4oz dark chocolate, chopped
2 cups milk
1 tbsp cornstarch (also known as cornflour and is the powder that causes the thickening)
4 tbsp sugar
Place the chocolate and half the milk in a pan and heat, stirring, until the chocolate has melted. Dissolve the cornstarch in the remaining milk and whisk into the chocolate with the sugar. Cook on low heat, whisking constantly, until the chocolate is thickened, about five minutes. Add extra cornstarch if it doesn't start to thicken after 5 minutes. Remove and whisk smooth. Pour and server in cups or bowls for dunking churros. Do not pour over churros, but use the mix for dunking churros after every bite. Serve warm
Spanish food recipes - Huevos a la Flamenca (Eggs with ham and tomatoes)
1 small onion chopped
1 clove garlic very finely chopped
100g diced serrano ham
3 large tomatoes peeled and deseeded
1/2 teaspoon paprika
8 eggs
75g cooked peas
1 small tin red pimiento
8 asparagas tips
100g chorizo
2 artichoke hearts
parsley
Heat some oil in a pan and fry the onion, garlic and ham until the onion is soft. Add the chopped tomatoes and paprika and cook on a medium heat for about 15 minutes until the tomatoes have broken down into a sauce. Oil four individual dishes and divide the sauce between them making two indentations. Carefully break an egg into each of these wells and then divide the peas, the sliced pimientos and the artichoke hearts amongst the dishes. Season as required and sprinkle with chopped parsley. Bake in a medium oven until the egg whites are set, approx 10 minutes. Serve straight away with fried bread, toast ot fresh bread.
Churros are a nice, fairly simple dessert to make, the Spanish version of a doughnut...doughy sticks fried in grease and sprinkled with powdered sugar...yum.