🇵🇪 Peru cuisine · #14

Picarones

Name: Picarones
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Peru
Ingredients: 250 g mashed cooked squash; 250 g mashed cooked sweet potato; 400 g flour; 10 g yeast; 1 tbsp sugar; anise; oil for frying; syrup: 250 g chancaca or brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, orange peel

Time120 min

Serves20

Ingredients8

Fried rings of squash and sweet-potato dough drizzled with spiced chancaca (raw sugar) syrup.

Method

Mix both mashes with flour, yeast, sugar and anise water into a sticky dough; rise 2 hours.
Simmer the syrup ingredients until thick.
With wet hands form rings and drop into hot oil.
Fry golden and serve with syrup.

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