Citrus-flavoured churros with a hint of sweet clover

Ingredients

• For the churro dough:
• 110 g (⅔ cup) sugar
• 5 ml (1 tsp) cinnamon
• 30 ml (2 Tbsp) butter
• 150 g (1 cup) flour
• 2 ml (½ tsp) orange zest
• 2 ml (½ tsp) sweet clover powder or vanilla
• 5 ml (1 tsp) icing sugar
• 170 ml (⅔ cup) water
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 l (4 cups) seal fat, melted and strained
• For the hot chocolate sauce:
• 30 ml (2 Tbsp) corn starch
• 1 l (2 Tbsp) corn starch
• 200 g (1 ¼ cup) dark chocolate drops
• 180 ml (¾ cup) sugar

Preparation

For the churro dough

• In a large flat bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon.
• In a pot, mix together the butter, flour, orange zest, icing sugar, water and salt.
• Melt the butter on low heat while mixing in the other ingredients.
• Once the preparation has a smooth, homogeneous texture, cook the dough for 2 minutes while constantly stirring.
• Transfer the dough into a food processor and incorporate the eggs while pulsing the machine.
• Transfer the dough back into the pot and cook on low heat until a firm dough resembling choux pastry is obtained.
• Transfer the dough into a pastry bag with a #4 fluted tip.
• Heat the oil in the fryer to 180°C (350°F).
• Prepare the hot chocolate just before frying the churros so that they can be served hot and crispy.
• Prepare the hot chocolate just before frying the churros so that they can be served hot and crispy.
• Fry them in several small batches so that they don’t stick together. Fry for 3 minutes and dry them on a paper towel before coating in cinnamon sugar.

For the hot chocolate sauce

• Dissolve the corn starch in 2 Tbsp of cold milk.
• Pour the milk and chocolate into a pot. Heat on low heat while constantly stirring.
• When the milk begins to simmer, pour a small quantity of hot milk in the corn starch and mix well.
• Pour back into the remaining hot milk and bring to a boil.
• Pour back into the remaining hot milk and bring to a boil.
• Add sugar to taste and mix until completely dissolved.

Serving

• Serve the churros hot with a small cup of hot chocolate sauce.