Homemade Churros with Cardamom and Chocolate
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Cooking:
25 min.
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Servings per container:
4
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Ingredients for - Homemade Churros with Cardamom and Chocolate

1. Water - ½ cup
2. Vegetable oil - 2 ½ tablespoons
3. White sugar - 1 tablespoon
4. Salt - ½ tablespoon
5. All-purpose flour - ½ cup
6. Grapeseed oil for frying, or as needed - 1 ½ cups
7. Heavy cream - 4 tablespoons
8. Dark chocolate (70%) - 1 (2 ounce) bar
9. Chocolate-hazelnut spread (such as Nutella®) - 2 tablespoons
10. Unsalted butter - 1 tablespoon
11. White sugar - 1 tablespoon
12. Ground coffee beans (Optional) - ½ teaspoon
13. Cardamom pods, seeded and hulls discarded (Optional) - 8
14. Cinnamon stick - 1 (2 inch) piece
15. Star anise pod (Optional) - 1
16. White sugar - ½ cup

How to cook deliciously - Homemade Churros with Cardamom and Chocolate

1. Stage

Bring water to a boil in a medium-sized pot. Add vegetable oil, sugar, and salt. Stir to combine. Add flour and turn off heat. Stir continuously and vigorously with a wooden spoon until dough balls up and follows your spoon around the pan, 1 to 2 minutes. Set aside to cool when dough feels firm and supple.

2. Stage

Heat 3/4- to 1 inch of grapeseed oil in a medium-sized pot over medium heat.

3. Stage

While oil heats, combine heavy cream, dark chocolate, chocolate-hazelnut spread, butter, sugar, and ground coffee in a pan set over lowest heat. Stir often to ensure even melting, 3 to 5 minutes.

4. Stage

Grease the inside of a piping bag fitted with a star tip. Insert dough and squeeze it all the way to the bottom of the bag.

5. Stage

Insert the handle of a wooden spoon into the oil heating in the pot; if it bubbles steadily, the oil is ready. Carefully squeeze dough out of the bag directly into the hot oil, cutting it off at 6-inch lengths. You can also pipe lengths of dough onto parchment paper and transfer them to the oil by hand. Do not crowd the pot.

6. Stage

Fry churros, turning every minute, for 2 to 3 minutes total. Transfer fried churros to a dish lined with paper towels.

7. Stage

Place cardamom seeds, cinnamon stick, and star anise in a spice grinder and blend to a fine powder. Transfer to a wide dish and add sugar. Mix well to combine.

8. Stage

Toss warm churros into the cinnamon-cardamom sugar. Serve alongside a dipping cup of the chocolate sauce.