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Buñuelos Guatemaltecos

Guatemalan fried dough balls with brown-sugar and anise syrup.

Buñuelos Guatemaltecos — illustrative food image

About Buñuelos Guatemaltecos

Paula Bendfeldt-Díaz’s Guatemalan buñuelos are fried dough balls served with brown-sugar and anise syrup. Her account recalls making this traditional dessert with her Nana and eating it at Guatemalan fairs.

Anise seeds flavour both the dough and the syrup. This version selects lard for the dough and peanut oil for frying, with white sugar as the final sprinkling.

The fritters have crisp outer surfaces and soft interiors. They are served warm with syrup drizzled over them, in the rounded, syrup-accompanied Guatemalan style described by the source.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Wheat (gluten), Egg, Peanut.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.

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Ingredients in Buñuelos Guatemaltecos

Paula Bendfeldt-Díaz’s Guatemalan lard-and-anise buñuelos.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Dough and syrup198/205 consolidated.
  • Brown sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Anise seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Dough and syrup200/206 consolidated.
  • All-purpose wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. All-purpose flour202 identified as wheat-based by own101/113; broader wheat-flour link.
  • Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Full carrier formula unprovided.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Lard: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit lard branch207/217 selected over vegetable shortening.
  • Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
  • Peanut oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Peanut source-confirmed. Explicit peanut branch209 selected over generic vegetable oil; refinement unprovided.
  • White sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only white-sugar finish223 selected over confectioners sugar.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

  • Guatemala
  • GuatemalaCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Paula Bendfeldt-Díaz, Growing Up Bilingual — Guatemalan Buñuelos Recipe