DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Churros
Crisp Mexican fried dough sticks with sugar and optional cinnamon.
About Churros
Mely Martínez’s Mexican churros use an egg-and-butter dough, one of the traditional forms discussed in her recipe. These unfilled fried pastries have a sugar coating, with ground cinnamon optional.
Vanilla flavours the dough, while butter adds richness. The sugar provides a sweet finish; dulce de leche is one of the author’s optional dipping accompaniments.
The pastries are long and ridged, with a golden, crisp exterior. Café de olla is a suggested drink alongside the freshly made churros.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Wheat (gluten), Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Churros
Mely Martínez’s Mexican egg-and-butter churros.
- WaterLiquid
- Vanilla extractSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- ButterBase
- All-purpose flourBase
- EggBinder
- Vegetable oilCooking medium
- SugarTopping
- Ground cinnamonTopping · Optional
- Café de ollaAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Dulce de lecheAccompaniment · Optional
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
- Vanilla extract: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Butter: Milk
- All-purpose flour: Wheat (gluten). Narrative63/68 and author replies identify ordinary all-purpose flour despite shorter card wording.
- Egg: Egg
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Listed vegetable oil retained; botanical source unresolved.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ground cinnamon (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Café de olla (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named author serving beverage; complete formula not supplied.
- Dulce de leche (optional): Milk. Chosen rather than chocolate sauce among author dipping alternatives; named milk-based confection supports Milk, remaining formula unresolved.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Mexico
- UruguayCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Mexican Cuisine
- Uruguayan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.