Churros
Gluten, dairy and egg free
Whats better than the smell of churros . I just love it.
Here is a recipe for gluten free churros, without milk of any kind, and egg. The secret ingrediens is aquafaba. You may not know what aquafaba is, and I don't blame you. It's a thing that I found a little more than a year ago, when searcing for egg free meringue. Its simply the water that are in the bottle of chickpeas. You just need to boil it for around 5 minutes to get it a little more concentrated. Then you can use it almost as real eggs.
Recipe (enough for 2 cones)
- 250 ml soya or rice milk
- 2 tsp vanilla powder
- 15 g coconut oil (can be replaced with firm dairy free margarine)
- 45 g firm margarine (dairy free)
- 200 g white glutenfree flour mix (fx this mix)
- 300 ml of aquafaba (you need 2 cans of chickpeas)
- Frying oil. (I used around 500 ml)
Cinnamon blend:
- 125 g sugar
- 1-2 tsp of cinnamon
How yo do it:
- In a medium sized heavy saucepan over medium heat, bring the soya/rice milk, coconut oil and margarine to a simmer, then add vanilla powder.
- Stir in flour and stir vigorously for a minute or two, until the mixture comes together and pulls away from the sides of the pan.
- Remove from heat and transfer to the bowl of a standing mixer.
- Boil aquafaba from 2 cans of chickpeas (around 400-500 ml of "water") for around 5 minuttes.
- Pour 300 ml of aquafabe i a glass or bowl to cool down a bit.
- When dough and aquafaba is cool enough to touch, beat in the aquafaba a fourth at a time, incorporating each addition before adding the next. When it is finished it should as shape as firm mashed potatoes.
- In a deep plate, mix the sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In a medium sized heavy saucepan over medium-high heat, bring about 5 centimeters (2 inches) oil to 190 °C (350 ° F).
- While oil heats, transfer batter to a piping bag fitted with a large open star tip
- When oil has come to temperature, carefully squeeze ropes of batter into the oil, and use kitchen scissors to cut the end.
- be carefull with to many churros in the oil.
- Boil until the churros are well-browned.
- If the churros seem to brown too quickly, reduce heat to medium and/or add a little more oil.
- If the churros falls apart then there oil are to cold.
- Remove fried churros to a plate with paper towels on.
- Squeeze more churros into the hot oil.
- When the fried churros have cooled down a litte turn them in the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
- Place sugared churros on another paper towel lined surface and continue with this frying and coating cycle until you are out of batter.
Here is what i used. I used Schär mix C gluten free flour mix. Its important to have en good piping bag, as a plastic bag will break, when trying to press out the batter. |
A large open star tip is essential to make churros that looks right. If that isn't an issue, then you can just use a large round tip. |
The batter before adding aquafaba |
Aquafaba from 2 cans of chickpeas, needs to boil for 5 minutes to reduce the plain water in it. |
Press down the batter and the cut it with a pair of scissors. |