Crispy on the outside, soft inside—these golden churros are easy to make at home and pair perfectly with a silky, not-too-sweet chocolate sauce.
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Ingredients
For the Chocolate Sauce:
• Chocolate (dark or milk): 50g | 2 oz | 1.75 oz (UK cup) | ¼ US cup (chopped)
• Granulated sugar: 25g | 2 tbsp
• Milk: 120 ml | ½ UK/US cup
• Cornstarch: 4g | 1 tsp
• Water: 10 ml | 2 tsp
For the Churros Dough:
• Water: 220 ml | slightly under 1 UK/US cup
• Granulated sugar: 70g | 3 tbsp
• Salt: 3g | ½ tsp
• Unsalted butter: 55g | 2 oz | approx. 4 tbsp
• Plain flour (all-purpose): 160g | 1 cup + 2 tbsp
• Eggs: 2 medium
For Frying and Coating:
• Neutral oil (for frying): as needed
• Extra sugar and ground cinnamon (for dusting- Optional)
Heat oil in a deep pot to 180°C / 350°F.
Fry until golden brown (2–3 minutes per side)
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Now, personally, I love these more than donuts. You’ll get that chocolate sauce on there. These are super super crunchy. They are light. They are fluffy inside. Look at that. That is sensational in there. Hi everyone. Welcome to Backyard Chef. I’m Rick. Today we’re doing churros and a chocolate sauce. Oh, fabulous. Then, you know, they’re like stick donuts and you just stick it in the chocolate sauce and Oh, now I first had this in Madrid about 25 years ago in a little place just around the corner from Ratiro Park and it set me off. I love these. Here we go. Water in a pan. So you always remember water in the pan. So you got w water, sugar, salt, butter. Easy as that. Now you can dissolve the sugar and the salt. So if we put that in there, there’s our sugar. A little bit of salt. We want some salt to ignite our taste buds. Now you can give this a little stir around until it dissolves or you can put the heat on and dissolve it that way. You’re going to you’re going to put the heat on anyway. So, I’m going to put a little heat under here. Help us melt that sugar. Now, I’m using a whisk for the first bit and then we’re going to a wooden spoon. It’s entirely up to you. Right, we got the sugar and the salt melted. We’re going in there with some butter. Now, you can cube it all up to put it in, but it’s going to melt anyway. And you are bringing this up to the boil. Okay, we’re swapping out in there with all your flour. Now, be careful because sometimes it can fizz. Stir it in. [Applause] Flame low and bring all that in there. Okay, there’s enough heat in here to actually finish the job. So, turn off the flame. [Applause] Just make sure all your flour is fully incorporated into your dough. And it’s going to be like play-doh, but don’t worry about it. That will do. So, you can leave it in the same pan, but we need to cool it down. So, I’ve got this big bowl here, and we’re just going to dip that in there. Now, we’ve got this lovely dough in here, but we need to cool it. So, the easiest way to cool it is just bring it out. Open it up. See all the steam coming out of there? Open it up like that. and it will cool reasonably quickly. Okay, in here I have two eggs, two medium eggs. Just give them a beating. Now, some people do one egg at a time, but you know, we’re going to use nearly all of this, if not all of it. So, you know, you might as well beat it up now. And we just add a little bit, little bit, little bit. So, we can add a good half of this first time out and then we’ll add a little bit. Little bit. But we’re not putting it in until this cools down. If we put that in there, we got scrambled eggs. So, just let that cool down. By the way, that is absolutely perfect edible Play-Doh. You know, if you colored it, and I don’t mean you don’t have to use food color if you don’t want to use food color. You could use natural color, and you could color this into different colors, and you’ve got 100% food safe Play-Doh. There you go. Kids can play with it. Okay. When it’s cooled down, it doesn’t have to be completely cold, but when it’s cooled down, we want to go in there with about half our egg mixture. And we’re going to beat it in. We want to make a really nice soft dough with this egg. Mix it in. And I’ll tell you, a hand mixer works really, really well with this. It fluffs it up. In fact, we’re going to probably do that instead of mixing it all by hand. Now, you can use Yeah, we’re going to do that. Come on. We’re going to do it the easy way. or I’m lazy. Let me get a mixer. Okay, mix it out. Blend just make the job easier there in there with the rest of that egg. It’s going to take it. Not a problem. Let’s give it a mix. That’ll do. And then we’re going to finish it off with our wooden spoon. That’s just give us a head start without all the arm work. Okay. What you’re looking at is a very thick dough but pipable. Now, if you think it’s not going to be pipable because it’s too thick, don’t be frightened about a little splash of water and just beat it in. It will go in. Just beat it in. We want a nice thick pipable dough. So once you’ve worked it all around and you’ve had a little workout, you should have a dough like that which is very pliable. And that would be to be squeezed out of a piping bag. That is perfect dough. That’s what we were after. So we got our dough. We need to cover it and let it chill. Now if you can put it in the fridge, fantastic. If you can store it overnight, the flavor really enhances. But, you know, that’s up to time whether you can do that or not. All I’m going to do is cover this, put it somewhere cool for half an hour, and we’ll carry on. Oh, a little bit of cling wrap over there, and leave it to rest. Just about half an hour for me. But, you know, like I say, overnight or 4 hours, more flavor. Okay, while we’ve got that cooling, we’re just going to make up a quick chocolate sauce. That is corn flour. So, all we’re going to do with our corn flour is add a couple of tablespoons of water. And we’re going to just bring it in. That is going to go in our sauce to thicken it, make it glossy. and a little bit creamy actually when mixed with the milk. Okay, this is going to be a really really quick chocolate sauce. I’ve got chocolate bits there. Look, whatever you call them. I’ve got sugar and I’ve got milk. And it all goes and the flame on really low. We’re just going to bring that together. But I’m just going to go in there with a little bit of salt. Now it’s nice and steady, gentle. We’re just making a very basic chocolate sauce. We just want to stir in a little bit of our corn flour slurry or corn starch, whatever you know it by. We want to thicken this up into a nice thick creamy chocolate dip. And I think that’s going to take all of that corn flour, corn starch. So, let’s get it all in. Just heat it until it thickens. Swap that out. I don’t really want a whisk. You know, I can’t seem to feel with a whisk where you put something a little bit more sturdy in. You can feel it starting to thicken. That is sensational. Flame off. And that is going to be good enough to dip in. Look at that. Okay, we want to be putting our dough mix in our piping bag. Now, if you don’t have a piping bag, you can just get a regular plastic bag, fill it up, snip off the end, and just squeeze it out. This I’ve got one of these star tip things on here. Look. Um, and that’s what we’re going to use. So, we’re just going to put that in there. Like that. So, there’s our super dough. In it goes. That’s easy enough, right? We’re going to show you a couple of ways to do this. I want to show you a way where you got it. Perfect. Perfect churros. But, you know, and then we’re going to do the street way. And we want to be going in the pan with enough oil to actually fry our chur churros. And then what you do, you just line out on there nice and straightforward like that. Okay. You have these little chur churros all the same size. As easy as that. We got a few little bubbles coming off our skewer. What you’re looking at is a temperature of about 180. Right. This is one way. And this is not what I would do, but you take that whole thing and you just put that in there nice and gently. And what happens is this paper absorbs that oil. These turros loosen up, flow off the top. You take the paper out. So you take that out. We don’t use that again. But to me, this is not such a good way because you have to go through an awful lot of paper. And then these things you’re just going to turn over. Nothing too hard about this. We just want a little bit of color all the way around. And when you’ve got your churros cooked to how you like them, out they come. And then in with some more. [Applause] [Applause] Now, personally, I love these more than donuts. Oh, I really do. You know, the crispy, the light, the sweet. Oh, they’re delicious. [Applause] There is some absolutely beautiful golden bubbling goodness right there. Okay, come on. Let’s get them out. [Applause] You decide how you’re going to serve it. For me, I’ve got a piece of this paper. And what I like to do is give it a screwing up. And that goes on there like that. And we’re going on there with our churros. You’ll get that chocolate sauce on there. These are super super crunchy. They are light. They are fluffy inside. Look at that. That is sensational in there. Oh man. [Applause] That is off the charts. Off the charts. That is fantastic. Oh, come on. Oh, they are super crunchy. They are super light. They are fantastic. They’re not overly sweet. Our chocolate sauce is a chocolate sauce. A little bit sweet, a little bit salty, and that makes it fantastic. M. These aren’t going to last very long round here, so I better have another one just to make sure that they’re okay. And if you like what we’re doing, that’s how to make churros and a chocolate sauce. Come on, share with your friends. In fact, share with your friends. Make and enjoy. And if you do like what we’re doing, a big thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring that bell, and we’re going to catch you in the next video. Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
39 Comments
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I can hardly wait to try them in chocolate sauce… here in South Central Tejas we use powdered sugar and cinnamon. Thanks Rik
Totally on point! We don’t need no stinkin’ doughnuts! Thanks Rik. I see these becoming a family favorite. 🤩
Could you freeze and reheat these in the oven Rik ?
I hadn't heard of these until a couple of years ago. But I've never seen them. So thanks for showing us how to make them at home,Rik. They look delicious. I think I'd prefer them to doughnuts, too.
Sorry Rick but Spanish churros only have 3 ingredients, flour salt and water. In South America you’ll find eggs but not in spain
I love them and was just watching you, makes my mouth water yum yum x
I love churros!!! Thanks Rik.
Hi Rik ! I love all your recipes but I wish you had a website with your recipes on so we could print them out. I have written your recipes down via the transcript feature, but a written recipe would be so helpful. Ihope you could bear this in mind 🙂
Yes please! xx
I have used the "paper in the oil" method when making donuts. I have also seen people use scissors to cut the Churro dough as it comes out of the piping bag – I think it was on a tv show with Rick Stein
It's almost a choux paste dough. They make them in Mexico as street food, huge kettles of oil and making big spirals of dough directly into the oil, instead of the short sticks.
Nice one mate,your channel has given me so many great ideas 👏🙏🤲
Choux dough is so useful,I love it,eclairs,profiteroles,
Gougeres,donuts,gnocchi,and churros. The Polish chef de cuisine I worked with would make these some evenings,for the Mexicans,and they were delicious.Someone said in Spain they were made from water,flour,and salt,that doesn’t make sense to me,they would be like rocks.
Lovely, darlin man, thanks ❤❤❤
Ooo fabulous I love churros they're definitely nicer than doughnuts Rik, i put a big squeeze of lemon juice in with the water and sugar before adding the rest of the ingredients 👍 thanks my friend
Lean chou pastry, water instead of milk.
I sprinkle cinnamon sugar over my churros
Yes I love this recipe. Gotta hand to the Spanish for this chocolate dessert! Great on the go too! 😂 thank you Rik I even enjoy the process of making of them. 😂
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Just in time for my grandsons visit this weekend… thanks Chef
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Top drawer Rik. I appreciate that you demystify these old school classics
I love Churros, I live in Murcia Spain so they are a typical sweet breakfast treat here. I’ve never made my own but what a nice surprise for my grandson when he’s on holiday. I’m gonna give them a go. ❤ thank you
WAW, great churros ❤Gracias,chef
I'll earn some boyfriend points with this one 😋
Very impressive! The chocolate sauce reminds me of an American recipe called Chocolate Gravy.
Classic snack from heaven❤
Hi, what are your thoughts on using msg and what foods would you use msg with
I Love Churros. There is a Cafe called San Churros in Australia. They are in every State except The Northern Territory. You get to choose the chocolate you dip it in – white, Milk, Dark, & Spanish Caramel.
They fry them like you did, they don't fry them on paper. What huge waste of paper. I think they have a special machine that does theirs.
Look lush ❤
Love them! I like to dunk them into a creamy caramel sauce.
Delicious rik 😃
love me some churros and I got a churro gun!
COOL! I SURRO NEED A CHOCLATE CHURRO. FOR SURE. CHEERS:)
Try filling them with Dulce de Leche instead. A staple here in Argentina 😁 Great recipe
I'd never heard of them until a few years ago when I went to Spain. They look fun.
Rik! I'm dying to try this (and others!) but can't find your recipes anywhere! Am I being dim? 😢🤦🏼♀️
Thanks for the easy to follow method tho 🎉
When I saw you crack one open I knew I had to make these
The problem is I can’t eat them with you
I Love them and like you i prefer these over doughnuts! Had them overseas many years ago, with sugar and cinnamon and i was hooked! Yummo!