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Recipe for fluffy and homemade wind fritters
The recipe I bring Today on the cooking blog are the wind fritters. Many people also call them Lenten buñuelos or bruñuelos. However, in many places they consider wind buñuelos and Lent as different recipes.
I have not investigated in depth but from what I have been able to observe it depends a lot on the area of Spain since it is a traditional recipe and Its origins are not entirely clear.
Throughout the explanation I will treat the wind fritters and Lent as synonyms. Now that this is clear, we can start!
To be honest, it was only a year ago that I made this dessert for the first time. I always bought them at the nearest bakery but I had never made them myself. And look how easy they are to cook!
You surely have the necessary ingredients at home: water, flour, butter, eggs, salt, sugar and oil. You do not need anything else!
Furthermore, at the end of the article also We have left the recipe for wind fritters with Thermomix in case you prefer to use the food processor to prepare the fritters.
At the end of the article I reveal some tips and tricks that you will surely love. One of them is to use custard cream to fill the Lenten fritters. They look great!
By the way, I almost forgot! If you like to cook delicious desserts, don't miss our carrot cake , our cake recipe , our delicious apple crumble or the star dessert, homemade tiramisu .
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Ingredients
How to make wind fritters step by step
- We take a casserole and pour the 0.25 liters of water, the 50 grams of butter and a little salt. Let it heat over medium heat until the mixture begins to bubble (to boil).
- Once the mixture of water and butter begins to boil, we stop the heat and add the 180 grams of flour. Stir the mixture well until the buñuelo dough separates from the walls of the casserole.
- Next we are adding the 4 eggs one by one. While we add them to the mixture it is important that we keep stirring. We can stir with electric rods or using a wooden spoon.
- We continue to mix until we obtain a homogeneous mass without lumps. We let the Lenten fritters dough rest for 30-60 minutes.
- After this time we put abundant oil in a pan (enough so that the fritters can be submerged). Once the oil is very hot, we take the dough with a spoon, trying to make it more or less spherical in shape, and we add it to the pan.
- We can use a slotted spoon to press them down so that they are well submerged. While they are frying, we prepare a plate with absorbent paper where we will put the fried wind fritters.
- We repeat the process until we finish all the dough. Then we put sugar on top and we can now serve them. We let them cool on the paper plate and we can surprise our friends with a good plate of wind fritters!
Thermomix wind fritters
If you are one of those people who likes to cook with a Thermomix or food processor, don't worry. We also leave you the recipe for wind fritters with Thermomix so you can prepare it without any problem.
How to prepare wind fritters in Thermomix
- In the Thermomix glass we add the butter, water and a little salt. We program at speed 4 at 100 ºC for about 8 minutes.
- After 8 minutes we add the 180 grams of flour. Mix for 15 seconds at speed 4.
- In a separate bowl, we beat the eggs well and add them little by little with the rest of the ingredients in the glass while keeping the mixture at speed 4. Once we have the dough made, we let it rest for about 30 minutes.
- We have already finished the Thermomix part. Now all that remains is to heat plenty of oil in a frying pan until it is very hot and add balls of the dough that we have just prepared until the fritters are well fried.
Tips for cooking the best wind fritters
This is a fairly simple recipe. However, good advice is always useful to achieve unbeatable results in the kitchen. Below we leave you 3 tricks and tips to cook the best wind fritters.
Fill the fritters
We can also fill the wind fritters inside. I recommend filling them with pastry cream, whipped cream or chocolate cream. Many times, when I prepare Lenten fritters I make a little of each.
All 4 types are delicious so if you want to try a slightly different recipe you can try filling it with some of these ingredients. Don't forget to read our article on how to prepare the best pastry cream.
How to get a perfect shape
The first time you prepare wind buñuelos you will see that the shape is not the best (don't worry because they taste great). Pastry fritters use pastry bags to achieve a completely spherical shape.
If you want perfect fritters you can buy a pastry bag or you can follow the following advice: A trick to make the fritters more round is to use two spoons dipped in oil to make the shape round. The oil will prevent the dough from sticking to the spoon and we can give it a more spherical shape.
Leave room in the pan
It is important to leave space between fritters when we add the dough to fry since they swell during cooking. Hence its name: wind fritters. If we don't do it this way, the fritters could get stuck together.
Ruben Canadas
I started cosmorecipes in 2020 during the time we were cooped up at home. Having so much free time I spent a lot of time in the kitchen trying different dishes. So I decided to mix cooking with my other great passion: web programming. That's why I decided to open this blog where I post the different recipes that I'm cooking.
