Turkish Churros
Crispy fried Turkish churros soaked in a sweet sugar syrup for a deliciously crunchy and sweet treat.
Ingredients
Syrup
- 4 cups water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 4 cups sugar
Dough
- 2 cups water
- 2.5 cups flour
- 50 grams butter
- a pinch of fine sea salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon starch
- 1 tablespoon semolina
For frying
- 2 cups sunflower oil
Instructions
Make the syrup first.
- Heat the water and sugar in a pot over medium-high heat until it boils.
- When the syrup starts to get thick, add the lemon juice.
- Boil for about 3 minutes, then take the pot off the heat.
Now make the dough.
- Put the butter and water in a pot and bring it to a boil.
- Add the flour and stir often.
- Add the sugar and salt.
- Turn the heat to low and cook for about 5 minutes, until the dough no longer sticks to the pot.
- Take the pot off the stove.
- Stir the dough now and then while it cools all the way down.
- When the dough is at room temperature, add the eggs one at a time, mixing after each one.
- Add the starch and semolina.
- Mix until the dough is smooth.
- Put the dough in a piping bag.
- Squeeze it out into circles and press the ends together.
- Put the churros in cold oil, then heat the oil to medium-high.
- Fry them until they are crunchy and golden brown, about 3 minutes on each side.
- While the churros are still hot, put them in the cold syrup.
- Leave them there for 2 to 3 minutes so they soak up the syrup.
- Serve and enjoy!