Bunuelos

Milk and cookies for Santa tonight? Go nontraditional and try crisp, sweet and cinnamon-y Bunuelos with a steaming cup of champurrado instead!

We prepared 200 pieces of these sweet discs for our Las Posadas celebration at work last week and impressive the volume may be, we did save steps by using ready-made lard flour tortillas instead of making the dough from scratch. If you want to see a real master at work, watch the video below.

Ingredients

12 pieces lard flour tortillas
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup ground cinnamon
oil for deep-frying

Procedure

In a bowl, combine cinnamon and sugar.

Heat one-inch deep oil in a skillet wide enough for the tortillas to fry flat. Deep-fry tortillas until golden brown, turning once. Remove from pan and drain excess oil on paper towels.

While warm, sprinkle fried tortillas on both sides with sugar-cinnamon mixture to taste.

Flour Tortilla Recipe: adapted from Mexrecipes.com

1/2 cup lard or shortening
3 cups all-purpose flour
dash salt
3/4 cup warm water
1/2 cup vegetable oil

With a pastry blender or your hands, work shortening into flour and salt Add warm water and stir until dough comes together. Roll out to thin rounds 7-8 inches in diameter.

 

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