Recipe source - My friend Lakshmi who tried it from Cooking classy
Ingredients
Flour
– 1 cup /130 gm
Butter
– ¼ cup/ 55 gm
Sugar
– 1 tablespoon
Water
– 250 ml
Egg
– 1 large
Salt
– pinch
Vanilla
extract – ½ tsp
For
coating
Caster
sugar – 75 gm
Cinnamon
powder – 1 tsp
Oil
for frying
Method
Make
the coating by mixing sugar and cinnamom powder in a plate. Leave it aside.
Add
flour to it and cook on a medium low heat until it all comes together to a smooth
, lump free dough.
Allow it to cool down for 5 minutes.
Allow it to cool down for 5 minutes.
Break
the egg and add vanilla extract to it and beat with a hand mixer until well
mixed and forms a smooth dough.
Meanwhile heat oil in pan.
When
the oil is medium hot, you can either directly pipe the dough straight into hot
oil and snip the end with a scissor or pipe it into a plate and gently slide it
into hot oil. Do not over crowd the pan.
Fry
the churros for 2-3 minutes by flipping sides in between until it’sslightly
golden.
Drain
it into a kitchen tissue to absorb any excess oil and then then transfer into
cinnamon sugar plate. Coat the churros well with sugar.
Enjoy
hot just as it is or with some chocolate sauce !