Buñuelos de viento means little wind balls, and it’s typical in Spain to eat them for Easter. They have this peculiar name due to when you fry the dough it almost duplicates its size, and when you bite them it looks like they are filled with wind.
The dough is so soft and wet at the very beginning when you just fry them that they look like undone inside, but wait until they’re cooled, you’ll see the perfect texture that you just created.
If you make them please let me know if you liked the recipe here in the comments, I would love to read your opinión!
Let’s bake!
BUÑUELOS DE VIENTO
makes about 50 little balls
· Ingredients ·
500ml water
the whole skin of 1 lemon
100g butter
2 Tbsp lard
2 tsp caster sugar
¼ tsp salt
300g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
8 large eggs
sunflower oil, enough to fry
caster sugar, enough to cover
· Step by step ·
in a medium saucepan pour the water, the skin of the lemon, butter, lard, sugar and salt at medium heat until it boils, once it happens to remove it from the heat.
add the sifted plain flour and baking powder stirring until everything is well combined.
let the dough rest for 5min minimum to let it cool a bit.
add the eggs one by one and mix everything well.
let the dough rest again a bit meanwhile in a medium saucepan the sunflower oil, at low-medium heat, is getting ready to fry the dough.
when the oil is ready, with the help of two big spoons, so gently pour one at a time the dough into the oil. it will take about 8 minutes to fry them properly until you see them brown.
when they’re still hot dip them in sugar, so the sugar will stick easily on the little balls.
· Tips ·
it is extremely important that the heat is at low-medium, otherwise, they will be done outside but they will be still raw inside, and yes, they have to be so soft inside but not raw.
the firsts hours they’ll be crunchy outside and soft inside which is nice as well, but it’s better to eat them the next day so they are soft outside as well and they taste just like at the old school bakeries in Barcelona.
when they’re cooled you can also fill them with cream, whipped cream, or chocolate cream.
Enjoy!
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