churro love
MELBOURNE, THE MOST EXOTIC CHURRO
In Australia, the Spanish churro has been a revolution . Here, the chefs have let their imagination run wild until they manage to prepare the churros in 30 different ways. There is something for all tastes: sweet, salty, even spicy. In cities like Sydney or Melbourne they are not satisfied with dipping the churro in the traditional hot chocolate, but rather accompany it with scrambled eggs, tomato sauce, avocado o Vegemite (a typical Australian yeast paste).
There are filled with passion fruit, Catalan cream, dulce de leche, peanut butter or completely covered in mint. Chains like Spanish Doughnuts or Chocolatería San Churro have popularized the most exotic version of the Spanish dish. In this last restaurant, they are even more creative and mold the churros in different ways. They serve them as tapas, in fondues and mixed with ice cream.
gourmet churros
NEW YORK, THE MOST TRADITIONAL FLAVOR
Jesús Manso (Lolo, to friends) is a man from Valladolid who came to New York in 1984. Owner of the Socarrat restaurants, he is also the creator of La Churrería, a small place with a lot of Spanish flavor that opened just a year ago in the neighborhood. of Nolita. It is without a doubt the best place in Manhattan to try churros made in Spain.
Here they make them the traditional way, accompanied by sugar and a cup of good hot chocolate . No more is needed. Crispy, golden, tender inside and at the exact point of salt, Lolo's secret is in the machine that he brought from Spain. And also in that they prepare them with great care. Served in paper cones, having a hot chocolate with churros in this establishment makes us feel at home. For those who want something more, they also have them filled with chocolate, dulce de leche or cream.
The most authentic in New York
TOKYO, SERVED WITH CHEDDAR
San Ginés, the quintessential Madrid churrería since 1894, has been able to export the best it knows how to do to the Asian continent. They have internationalized so much that Chinese can already be read on their website. Cities like Tokyo, Osaka or Shanghai already enjoy this traditional dessert which in the Mandarin language is known as xuanlezi to differentiate them from the Chinese oily sticks called youtiao. Along with the traditional fried dough, San Ginés has had to innovate in its recipes to attract the attention of Japanese palates. Thus, in the Shibuya neighborhood they are served with cheddar cheese and spicy Mexican mole . Its multicolored tones attract a lot of attention in the shop windows: pink, blue, yellow... the sugar colors the churros at the customer's request. And in terms of flavours, more of the same: variety and imagination: raspberry, strawberry, peach, green tea are just a few examples.
LOS ANGELES, SIGNATURE CHURROS
In Santa Monica (Los Angeles) we find the most modern version of Spanish churros. We are talking about Xooro (pronounced sure-oh). Starting from a family recipe, the Spanish Begoña Amaya launched this cafeteria, which today is considered a true churro empire. Of course, adapted to the American palate: vanilla-filled churros, with mango cream, with pistachios, battered with coconut, with Turkish hazelnuts.
The list of bizarre flavors is endless : there are goat's milk, maple bacon butter and Maple syrup cream with bits of bacon. And every fortnight new varieties are added to the menu. As a curiosity, these Premium churros are fried in rice bran oil, which gives them antioxidant properties. If we talk about size, these churros are XXL: they are about 21 centimeters long by three in diameter. Better come hungry. In California they are a success. Here the expression 'they sell like churros' comes in handy: the bar of this cafeteria serves more than 2,000 units a day.
XXL churros of a thousand flavors
LIMA, THE CREATIVE
In the Peruvian capital we find the most innovative, versatile and surreal churros. In addition to the traditional glazed fried dough, since 2009 the Q'churros chain has been serving culinary inventions such as the churro cheese (with cheddar and mozzarella), the churro pizza (with oregano included) or the churro mix , its star dish. Other exotic flavors that we can find are lucuma (a Peruvian fruit), coffee, apple with cinnamon, soursop, strawberry and passion fruit. They fill them with the flavor you want instantly.
JAKARTA, BETTER COLD
After a vacation in Madrid and after gorging himself on churros with chocolate, the entrepreneur Kent Rusli returned to Jakarta with the idea of opening a business based on the Spanish recipe. And so he did. Kent opened the first churrería in Indonesia: Café Churrería. Known as the Spanish donut, the Indonesian churro is longer, lighter and less oily than the one from Madrid. Here they are served with countless dressings and sprinkled with cinnamon, sugar or nuts. Customers love to drink it cold to beat the heat. The churro with green tea ice cream, the cold fondues, those that They carry oreos, cornflakes and the ones that are dipped in a big banana split.
The specialty: churros with green tea ice cream
CAIRO, EGYPTIAN MINIATURES
Arabs have a sweet tooth by nature. That's why a business like ' the churro could not go unnoticed in a place like Cairo . Located on the fifth floor of the Citystars’ Phase One shopping center, the smell of fried food warns us that a new round of churros is about to come out . Here they are served warm, golden and crunchy, accompanied by two large bowls, one of white chocolate and the other black for dipping. For those who prefer coffee, the Madrid Mocha is served; or Barcelona, which has peanut butter. Couples can share a combo platter featuring miniature churros with cocoa, ice cream, candies and fruit pieces. Similar only in appearance to the Arab dessert balah the sham_,_ the flavor of the churro with cinnamon and sugar is a real discovery for the Egyptians. And it seems that they like it, because they always repeat.
