Wind fritters: how to make them at home with the best recipe

BarcelonaXavier Barriga, baker and creator of Turris, He is a proponent of traditional pastry recipes., such as fritters Lentwhich is one of the eagerly awaited fried desserts on the Catalan sweet calendar.

To make buñuelos de viento (wind fritters) at home, the baker proposes a recipe with a small amount of sugar and easy to make with ingredients you probably already have at home. As with any good fried dessert, the baker suggests we use virgin olive oilwhich will give the fritters their final flavor.

Ingredients for 60 Lenten fritters

• 250 ml of milk
• 150g of butter
• 200g of all-purpose flour
• 15 g of sugar
• 6 eggs
• Virgin olive oil (for frying the fritters)
• Sugar for coating (to taste)

Making wind fritters

1. Mix the milk and butter in a saucepan and bring the mixture to a boil. Once boiling, add the flour and sugar, which you will have previously mixed together in a bowl. Stir well in the saucepan until you obtain a ball-shaped dough.
2. Next, remove from the heat, pour into a bowl, and continue stirring. Now add an egg and mix it all together. Continue this process, adding the eggs one at a time. Add the eggs gradually to ensure the batter is compact. The texture should be fluffy.
3. Place the resulting dough into a piping bag. Pipe small balls of dough (about 10g each) and then fry them in oil at 180ºC until golden brown.
4. Let the fritters cool on absorbent paper to remove excess oil. Once cool, coat them in a bowl of white sugar.
5. They'll be ready to eat.

Enjoy!