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Baking

Picarones

Squash and sweet potato rings, bathed in chancaca syrup.

VegetarianVegan

90 minTime
6Servings
DificilDifficulty
PeruCuisine

Ingredients

  • 300 g of cooked squash
  • 200 g of cooked sweet potato
  • 400 g of flour
  • 1 packet of dry yeast (7 g)
  • 1 teaspoon of anise seed
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 200 g of chancaca or panela
  • 1 orange (peel) and 1 cinnamon stick
  • Plenty of oil for frying

Step-by-step

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  1. Place the cooked squash and sweet potato in the mixing bowl and crush 20 sec/speed 6 until pureed.
  2. Add the flour, the yeast, the anise, the sugar and the salt and knead 3 min/dough mode.
  3. Let the dough rest covered in a warm place 1 hour until it doubles in volume.
  4. For the syrup, place the chancaca, the orange peel, the cinnamon and 300 ml of water in the mixing bowl and cook 25 min/100°C/speed 1 until thickened. Strain and set aside.
  5. With wet hands form rings of dough and fry them in hot oil until golden on both sides.
  6. Drain the picarones on absorbent paper.
  7. Serve hot bathed in plenty of chancaca syrup.

Tips

  • The dough should be sticky; wet your hands to form the rings.
  • Form the hole with your finger just before frying.
  • The syrup should be thick like a glaze; do not overcook it.